https://www.npr.org/2025/09/08/nx-s1-5317647/school-shooting-industry
In the wake of those shootings, an industry has emerged to try to protect schools — and business is booming. According to the market research firm Omdia, the school security industry is now worth as much as $4 billion, and it’s projected to keep growing.
There was a shooting at my campus a few years ago and one of my classmates had a friend whom it was their 3rd school shooting they experienced.
Yea apparently he basically did the first time
thing and explained to everyone what was going to happen, which was that the cops were going to just bust the door down and run in pointing rifles and shouting.Which eventually did happen even though they already shot the shooter. Cops also went around smashing the shit out of everything, for like no reason. They would need to smash a window to get into a door for example, but they would also just smash all the windows around it and also the drywall for some reason??? It took over a year for all the damage to be repaired lol
What the actual fuck
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When I was a lot younger I used to watch USA films and think it was so exaggerated how the coppers behaved, I got older and realised it was accurate.
Yea except for doing super cool repelling from the roof scenes it was a cop breaking a window on the ground floor to open it up for the inside and climb in when the door was already unlocked and open, they would literally clear rooms multiple times and each time break another window to get in
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
smashing the drywall
well they are white boy gamers at heart
Cops also went around smashing the shit out of everything, for like no reason. They would need to smash a window to get into a door for example, but they would also just smash all the windows around it and also the drywall for some reason??? It took over a year for all the damage to be repaired lol
That’s so funny. You know they went home thinking they were such badasses the way they cleared those corners and opened the doors too. In reality, they just semi-permanently trashed some kids’ school. Absolute clown shit.
Hey, that’s impressive. But I’ll counter that with the one I got locked-down for which was a rare foil edition teacher-shoots-the-school.
Hell of an icebreaker answer.
I listened to NPR a few weeks ago when they were covering that church shooting and their coverage, to me, came across as perverse. Particulaely tr part where they discussed what the children were going through and how they might be processing the events. In isolation that doesn’t seem tpo terrible of a thing to cover, but given the context of no real political understanding or framing, no idea of actions to take, and the wider complicity in so much violence, including the children in Gaza, it felt more like they were just trying to make purposeless spectacle-making of suffering into a business model.
You just cracked what NPR has been doing for at least fifteen years.
I switched to NPR today for a moment just to see who their “underwriters” were.
Moderna came up.
Big Pharma more as undertakers.
And they say capitalism doesn’t innovate!
It’s terrible that the words “school” and “shooting” can be next to each other.
It’s absolutely diabolical that the words “school shooting” and “industry” can.
i have an idea.
instead of going through all the trouble of inventing some terrible situation and an evil “solution” to the situation why dont we have some sort of government grifter program where grifters can apply for a free billion dollars from the government, sponsored by at least one senator, and the sponsor makes like $10 million off the deal.
That way we can be just as corrupt as we are today but leave the general population out of it.
This actually strikes me as a really innovative idea, but as it stands your government grifter program needs a blame-diffususion mechanism to be enacted and see actual usage. You don’t need anything fancy, just fancy enough to satisfy government grifters.
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i’m not surprised or even disappointed, but the existence of a school shooting industry means the existence of school shooting industry lobbyists which means that even if there was a big push to end this societal problem from average people it would basically be impossible.
WTH is a school resource officer and why does he have a gun?
Ah, I get it now, the point is to put on a show and terrorise black kids. Ok then. Very normal.
Been a thing since Columbine and no they have not stopped a single shooter but yes they have terrorized tons of children and streamlined and accelerated the school to prison pipeline.
As long as we live under late capitalism school shootings aren’t going to go away. People are still going to get squeezed and lose their minds and take it out on the vulnerable. And since we’re never going to abolish capitalism the bandage on the wound is gun control and lmao, yeah good luck with that.
yeah in the current climate “gun control” is a non-starter.
say dems get in power and get it done: voluntary confiscation maybe followed up by collection. local sheriff going house to house. guess who isn’t getting a second look? right wingers, fellow cops, etc. meanwhile minorities are getting their doors kicked in and likely being shot.
or they pull a Clinton and just keep expanding what crimes are felonies until all crimes are. once again you can be selective about this. there’s a reason simple drug possession of many substances became felonies in the crime bill
if reps do it we know it’s just going to be: all liberals, trans, lefties, etc are banned from owning firearms only using “mental health” statutes. not much different then expanding felonies. in fact, they would likely be on board with that too because they know who’s going to get hit with these charges (not them or their friends).
in the end, both just want the “right people” to be armed. me, personally, I just want a well regulated People’s Militia in the Bolivarian Socialist or Chinese model (it should outnumber the military and maybe replace it)
yeah in the current climate “gun control” is a non-starter.
And even then it shouldn’t even be on or even near the table until after the revolution happens, because historically in the US, gun control has, and always will be about keeping guns out of the hands of non-whites.
Like seriously I keep wondering if anyone actually knows the history of gun control here in the states with how often it keeps being brought up “why don’t they just ban guns already”.
Of course this is without getting into the logistical nightmare a realistic comprehensive gun control would even look like in the US.
Words cannot describe how pathetic I think these “operators” are.
The way they dress, the way they hold their guns, the way they talk, and the way they move around, aping the tacticool media they have consumed their whole lives. And for what? The best case scenario for this idiot is that he gets to shoot a kid who should have got mental help years ago, but most likely this fucking prat will be too scared to act on the day and will stand outside whilst the shooter goes unchallenged.
I fucking hate the United States.
That headline sounds like something Paul Verhoeven would put into one of his movies before stopping, saying “…Nah, that’s a bit much even for me,” and deleting it
I take it that VR training is just the Dylan Klebold Doom levels with all the enemies replaced with deepfakes of kids taken from the school yearbook?
the school shooting industry
At least metal detector guy got it.
