The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing : NPR
On a sunny day in Grapevine, Texas, three drones are buzzing around the head of a test dummy balanced on a pedestal. It's part of a demonstration outside the National School Safety Conference. "We use drones to stop school shootings," says Justin Marston, the CEO of Campus Guardian Angel, the ... On a sunny day in Grapevine, Texas, three drones are buzzing around the head of a test dummy balanced on a pedestal. It's part of a demonstration outside the National School Safety Conference. "We use drones to stop school shootings," says Justin Marston, the CEO of Campus Guardian Angel, the company selling the drones.Tom McDermott, with the metal detector manufacturer CEIA USA, says schools used to be a small fraction of their U.S.The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.Chris Myers, a school resource officer in Daviess County, Ind., participates in an augmented reality training simulator. The simulation, run by Christian Carrillo for InVeris Training Solutions, put Myers in a realistic school shooting scenario.