Cover founder Brett Adcock said on “The Shawn Ryan Show” Tuesday that the vast majority of school shootings were preventable and explained how technology could help stop them.
Cover found in its research that 97% of school shootings are not planned, with students frequently taking guns with them prior to ultimately firing them. Adcock said on the show that schools could implement imaging technology to detect these students’ guns, arguing it would be preferable to metal detectors.
“[The] majority of all school shootings are unplanned. Most of them, like almost all of them, are some kid bringing a gun in habitually. It’s like their uncle’s gun and they bring it in school like every day for like three months,” Adcock said. “They get in a fight at recess and they shoot the gun … The ones where you see like a planned event that’s like on like CNN where somebody’s like coming in with a machine gun or automatic weapon. It happens like one or two times a year.”
The founder said that while it would be challenging or “impossible” to prevent planned school shootings, it was possible to “stop all those” more common unplanned shootings.
