school safety

Louisiana students and teachers are able to use a school safety app funded by the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security to send in tips about potential threats following the mass shooting in Winder, Georgia.

Parents in a Colorado community are outraged after a transgender sex offender allegedly tried to kidnap an elementary schooler during recess after entering the property without a problem.

Gun control activists are urging the Utah governor to reject a bill to fund training for teachers who want to be armed for classroom defense. 

The mother of Brendan Depa, the autistic Florida teen seen beating his teacher unconscious in a February viral video that disturbed the nation, says prison time for her son would be a “death sentence.”

The British government has ordered more than 100 schools to keep some or all of their buildings closed over concern of crumbling concrete.

A teenager set himself on fire after stabbing an eight-year-old in the head and neck at a school in East Germany, police have said.

The Texas House passed a bill last week that would pay an extra $25,000 to K-12 teachers who get training and carry a gun during school hours for classroom defense.

“Firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens make our communities more safe, not less safe” former Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News during a few moments backstage at the NRA’s 2023 Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.

A 14-year-old Brazilian student attacked two nine-year-old girls with an ax at the Alcântara Costa Municipal School, located in the rural area of the city of Farias Brito, in the state of Ceará, Brazil, on Wednesday, gravely injuring one of the girls.

Tennessee state Reps. Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville), Justin Jones (D-Nashville), and Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), dubbed the “Tennessee three” by gun control supporters, voted Thursday against a bill adding armed security to schools in Tennessee. 

A 25-year-old man killed four children with an ax and injured five more at a Brazilian day care center located in the southern city of Blumenau, Santa Catarina, on Wednesday.

Gov. Bill Lee (R) on Thursday put forward three provisions to keep schools safe, the first of which is a budget amendment to fund an armed guard at every public school in Tennessee. 

Breitbart News spoke with Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) over the weekend about the Nashville Christian school shooting and he stressed his conviction that it is time to allow teachers and staff to be armed and to make sure would-be attackers know the teachers and staff are ready to shoot back. 

UFC’s Conor McGregor reacted to the 28-year-old transgender shooter’s attack on the Nashville Christian school by expressing his conviction that every school should have “armed protection.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is introducing legislation to designate $900 million in grants to enable schools to hire off-duty officers, train and hire veterans, and take other measures to harden school campuses.

Country singer John Rich responded to news that there were no armed resource officers at the Nashville Christian school by urging people to protect school children the way we protect money and jewelry.

Covenant School, the Christian school where an attacker killed three students Monday, did not have armed resource officers on campus when the attack occurred, Fox News reporter John Roberts noted during live coverage of the shooting at the Nashville area Covenant School.

Earlier on Wednesday, Breitbart News reported that two school staff members were shot at Denver’s East High School and reports are now surfacing that Denver Public Schools (DPS) superintendent Alex Marrero responded by announcing armed resource officers would be placed on campus.

Contractor Kevin Thomas responded to the May 24, 2022, Uvalde mass shooting by designing and building small bulletproof rooms that can be placed inside classrooms to give students protection in case of attack. 

On January 4, 2022, Parkland father Andrew Pollack’s 501c3 “Meadows Movement” will be donating eight backpacks, each containing an AR pistol, to Florida’s Bradford County Sheriff’s Office for use in Bradford County schools.

On Tuesday, Pennsylvania’s Pittston Area School District revealed it had placed one shotgun and one AR-15 in each of its schools for use by a resource officer in the event of an attack.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) argued that some of the money allocated to the IRS by the Inflation Reduction Act should be spent on school safety and security and touted

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey announced this week that officers in county schools will carry long guns and will be prepared to “meet violence with violence” and win the day. 

The French city of Arles near Marseille has constructed a concrete block wall outside of a local school in an effort to protect students from stray gunfire after a 15-year-old was fatally shot last month. The wall, which is being

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) explained on Wednesday why he cannot support the bipartisan gun legislation that has been presented as it currently exists, citing concern with “constitutional deficiencies in many red flag laws.” However, he promised to try to amend the constitutional deficiencies of the bill.

Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and John Barrasso (R-WY) introduced school safety legislation on Wednesday that focuses on hardening schools rather than instituting more gun control.

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw revealed critical school safety violations that contributed to the shooter being able to access the Robb Elementary School building and classrooms. The district also failed to correct at least one maintenance issue that kept the specific classroom door where the shooting took place from being lockable.

NRA’s Wayne LaPierre says the group wants school safety and real action rather than “soundbite solutions” from gun controllers.

A man allegedly trying to enter an elementary school in Gadsen, Alabama, was shot and killed by a school resource officer Thursday.

CLAIM: During Thursday’s debate on more Democrat gun control Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) claimed there are “more people killed in the United States by hands and knives than rifles.”

Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) spoke exclusively to Breitbart News Sunday about legislation he is putting forward this week to get funds in the hands of local school districts to enable them to make decisions regarding school safety.

If a target is “soft,” that means it’s vulnerable. So let’s protect targets by hardening them, starting with schools.

The DeSantis administration is prioritizing school safety in the wake of national tragedies and the left’s anti-Second Amendment push.

President Joe Biden delivered a 20-minute prime-time address about gun violence on Thursday in without mentioning school security. 

Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered a state school safety group do begin conducting random, unannounced school-intruder detection audits. The order came as part of a multifaceted plan to harden schools in the wake of last week’s Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for a review of school safety requirements and additional hardening one week after 19 students and two teachers were gunned down in Uvalde.