School Safety Still Too Focused on Technology and 'Hardening' Instead of Prevention

School Safety Still Too Focused on Technology and 'Hardening' Instead of Prevention

In 2025, there have been 230 school shooting incidents in the U.S. – still a staggeringly high number. Schools are treated as the front line, because the larger, structural solutions are too difficult to confront. It is much easier to blame schools after a tragedy than to actually address firearm access, grievance pathways – meaning how a person becomes a school shooter – and the other societal problems that are creating these tragedies. The pos…