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In an average year, 1,404 people die and 3,385 are wounded by guns in Tennessee, which has the 7th-highest rate of gun violence in the US. Tennessee firearm licenses in 2021: 151,536; 51.6% of adults from the Volunteer State have guns in their homes. Nationally, every eleven minutes someone in America is murdered with a firearm. In 2022, 48,000 Americans were killed by someone with a firearm, resulting in wartime casualty rates without a foreign invasion. Worse, the NIMH reports that one in six Americans are suffering from some sort of mental illness. Link: NIMH