Michaela Carter was one of at least 75 people killed in domestic violence shootings in Nashville since 2007. Nearly 40% were shot by people who were legally barred from having a gun.
After Covenant, Lee calls for expanding a gun dispossession system already failing domestic violence victims
The governor’s gun control proposal seeks to expand a gun dispossession system that has allowed guns to slip through the cracks — with deadly consequences.
His mother and sister were murdered. He’s focused his grief on exposing loopholes that endanger domestic violence victims.
Alex Youn has spent the year since his mother and sister’s deaths trying to figure out what went wrong in their case. He discovered loopholes in the criminal justice system, and turned those loopholes into law to protect future domestic violence victims.
One Woman’s Death Illustrates How Guns Can Stay In Dangerous Hands In Tennessee
A Nashville woman had done everything domestic violence victims can do in Tennessee to prevent her estranged husband from killing her. She had even armed herself. Yet she wound up dead.



