School shootings dropped in 2025 - but schools are still focusing too much on safety technology instead of prevention

By: James Densley, Metropolitan State University , The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: December 17, 2025

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Last Updated: 3 weeks, 4 days ago

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By James Densley, Metropolitan State University

Active shootings represent a very small percentage of on-campus university violence.

But among those that do happen, there are patterns. And as law enforcement officials continue to investigate the Dec. 13, 2025, Brown University shooting, similarities can be seen with other active shooter cases on college campuses that scholar James Densley has studied. “They tend to happen inside a classroom, and there tends to be multiple victims,” …

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