Nashville Parents Ask: Must a Mass Shooter’s Writings Be Made Public?
Barely two months after an armed assailant fatally shot three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville, the lack of information about the motive has led to a bitter legal fight over whether handwritten journals and writings found during a search of the shooter’s home and car should be released to the public. Caught in between the arguments about the constitutional right to access public records and a political dispute over gun-control legislation are the…