Infowars host Alex Jones is facing the possibility of having more penalties heaped onto the amount he already owes for spreading conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Recent tragedies have led district leaders across the U.S. to consider better options to increase student safety in their schools. But others question if "hardening" schools will be enough to end mass shootings.
Since Texas launched the school marshal program in 2013, just 84 school districts out of more than 1,200 have armed school staff. Educators say that shows that teachers don't want to be the ones to defend schools from mass shootings.
In the aftermath of Columbine, Parkland, Sandy Hook and the nearly 1,000 other school shootings since 2012, advocates for nationwide gun control measures have run into political realities that have stopped these efforts from moving forward.
The "tranquility of school" became a nightmare in Texas on Tuesday, Pittsburgh Public Schools leaders said in locking their buildings down after the Uvalde shooting.
More than 10,000 people have signed a student-led petition to close all schools in surrounding Oakland County, Michigan, through winter break in the wake of the Oxford High School tragedy.
