Nashville Mourns 6 Killed in 129th U.S. Mass Shooting This Year, After Tennessee Loosens Gun Laws

Nashville is in mourning after a gunman killed six people at a private Christian elementary school Monday before being killed by police. The victims were three adults who worked at the school and three 9-year-old students. Police identified the shooter as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a former student, who entered the school through a side door armed with two assault-style weapons and a handgun. The shooter had written a manifesto laying out plans for the attack that included maps of the building, but no motive has been established. Monday's massacre was the 129th mass shooting in the United States this year alone, including 13 school shootings. People here are still just in shock," says Holly McCall, the editor-in-chief of the Tennessee Lookout. It's just not difficult at all in Tennessee to get any type of weapon. Over the last six or seven years, we've seen the Legislature increasingly passing laws that even law enforcement officials and law enforcement organizations oppose."