Your Daily Briefing: How do we stop mass shootings? Here's what a local expert says.

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I just happened to sit down at the Franklin Pride Festival a couple of weeks ago across the table from a guy named Patrick Prince.

I'm Keith Sharon, a reporter with The Tennessean. First, he tells me he's flown in that morning from Southern California. He lives in Fairview, works in L.A. I ask him his line of work.

And he says:

Mass shootings.

For more than 40 years, Patrick Prince has consulted with companies, schools and government agencies about how to prevent mass shootings.

I ask him how we stop them.

That, he said, is complicated.

Read more about his 40-year career in trauma response and prevention — and what he thinks could make a difference — here.

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