Tennessee Needs to Reconsider Bill to Stop Mass Killers
January 24, 2025
Following today’s Tennessee Star breaking news story on 17-year-old Antioch High School shooter, Solomon Henderson, new details have emerged regarding the gunman’s multiple behavioral suspensions from school. These suspensions have intensified calls for access to the shooter’s mental health records. The Nashville Metro Police Department Chief’s continued silence on the matter has fueled demands for greater transparency.
The joint efforts of AbleChild and Reform Pharma, a division of Robert F. Kennedy’s Children’s Health Defense, both nonprofits, worked on language to combat the root cause of the lack of solving these mass killings. The proposed legislation SB 2937 and HB 2933, aimed at addressing mental health psychotropic drug use in relation to mass shootings; it failed to advance in the Tennessee legislature. Sources suggest that behind-the-scenes interference from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) led to the sponsor not considering the bill. And AbleChild and Reform Pharma persisted in its efforts to introduce legislation that would expose the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and its pharmaceutical industry funding connections to police training programs.