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Why security measures won't stop school shootings

  • Written by Bryan Warnick, Professor of Education, The Ohio State University

When school shootings take place in the United States, often they are followed by calls for more stringent security measures.

For instance, after the Jan. 23 case in which a 15-year-old student allegedly shot and killed two students and wounded 16 others at a small-town high school in Kentucky, some Kentucky lawmakers called for armed teachers and...

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