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Jan 8, 2022 · We conducted a time-series analysis to measure the association of permissiveness of state firearm laws and state gun ownership with K-12 school shootings and active shootings. More permissive firearm laws and higher rates of gun ownership were associated with higher rates of both school shootings and active school shootings after controlling ...
Apr 22, 2020 · It is unclear how policies increasing the number of authorized guns in schools would affect the gun industry. Jackson et al. (2023), using results from a 2022 survey, estimated that 550,000 of the 3 million K–12 teachers in the United States would carry firearms at school if allowed.
Policies that prevent high-risk groups from obtaining guns — including domestic violence offenders, people convicted of violent misdemeanor crimes, and people with mental illness and a history of violence —reduce violence, the report found.
- Key Recommendations of This Report Are as Follows
- Introduction
- A Detailed Picture of Gun Violence in America’s Schools
- Four Key Facts About School Gun Violence
- Solutions to Prevent School Gun Violence
- Practices That Can Harm and Traumatize Students
- Conclusion
Enact and Enforce Secure Firearm Storage LawsPass Extreme Risk LawsRaise the Age to Purchase Semi-automatic FirearmsRequire Background Checks on All Gun SalesIn this report, the nation’s largest education unions and its largest gun safety organization are joining together to present a plan that combines school-based intervention strategies with carefully tailored gun safety policies. Using data to present the full picture of what gun violence on school grounds looks like and drawing upon research from s...
Everytown’s database of Gunfire on School Grounds details the myriad ways in which gun violence manifests in America’s schools. Following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, Everytown began tracking all cases of gunfire on school grounds in order to build a detailed national database to include all scenarios when a gun discha...
Understanding basic lessons learned from incidents of gun violence in schools is integral to creating a comprehensive plan to address their threat and effects. Analyzing Everytown’s Gunfire on School Grounds dataset and studies from other widely cited organizations yields several critical lessons that guide our school safety proposals.
In order to effectively address violence in our schools, we must first acknowledge that school violence is, in part, a gun violence problem. Many “comprehensive” school safety plans have been proposed over the last 20 years. Few have thoroughly addressed the issue common in all school shootings: easy access to guns for those at risk of committing h...
Arming Teachers Puts Children at Greater Risk
One of the most dangerous ideas in the American education system is that arming teachers or school staff is an effective solution to an active shooter incident. While the desire for action is understandable, the popular notion of a well-trained teacher acting as a last line of defense in a situation of a school shooting is not based on any experience or research. Everytown, the AFT, and the NEA strongly urge, as a matter of student safety, that schools reject attempts to arm teachers and inst...
School Resource Officers Don’t Stop School Shootings but Can Harm Students and Criminalize Typical Adolescent Behavior
School resource officers (SROs) are sworn law enforcement officers who work in schools. SROs have the power to arrest students, and nearly all are armed. Funding sources for these officers range widely, coming from school district funds, law enforcement budgets, or state or federal grants. Relentless and frightening school gun violence has given districts, teachers, and communities an earnest desire to protect against school shootings. But the practice of policing in schools, including the tr...
Student-Involved Shooter Drills Cause Harm to Entire School Communities
In response to concerns about school shootings, many schools elect or are required to perform school shooter drills. These drills typically require students and school staff to go into lockdown and to practice specific emergency procedures, which often include staying quiet, locking the door, and turning off lights. Since the 1999 Columbine shooting, active shooter drills have proliferated in America’s schools, with school-based shooting drills currently required in at least 40 states.101Ever...
Using the comprehensive plan outlined in this report, policymakers and school communities can work together to prevent active shooter incidents—and gun violence more broadly—in their classrooms. These solutions form a thorough strategy by providing points of intervention at each level of a shooter’s escalation to violence and by creating a system w...
Jun 6, 2023 · This fact sheet lays out research-backed approaches for creating safer schools and ending gun violence that combine school-based interventions with strong gun safety laws. These actions work to intervene before shootings happen.
Sep 1, 2021 · The search for policy levers that can reduce incidents with firearms in schools is of critical importance. This study's empirical results showed weak and inconsistent evidence of links between school firearm incidents and state gun ownership rates and three gun control laws.
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Jun 10, 2022 · The debate over U.S. gun laws has raged for decades, often reigniting after high-profile mass shootings. Gun violence has surged amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Gun ownership and gun homicide...
