Solutions to school shootings: More gun laws or campus security?

Jennifer Click of Bandera, Texas, offers hugs to people as they leave the Civic Center after a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, U.S., May 24, 2022.

Jennifer Click of Bandera, Texas, offers hugs to people as they leave the Civic Center after a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, U.S., May 24, 2022. Photo by REUTERS/Nuri Vallbona.

As mass killings keep happening in America, they send people into their predictable political corners. Democrats push for gun restrictions and assault rifle bans. Republicans insist that more gun regulation won’t work, and it’s better to add more security at schools or arm teachers. What solutions could actually work? 

Credits

Guest:

  • Daniel Webster - co-director of Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

Host:

Madeleine Brand

Producers:

Sarah Sweeney, Angie Perrin, Michell Eloy, Amy Ta, Brian Hardzinski, Bennett Purser, Marcelle Hutchins