Using Human Kindness as a Shield Against School Violence
Psychology Today | 11.04.2026 22:45
In the "capitalist death circus," America fights the school shooting epidemic by wasting billions on the theater of war—marketing bulletproof backpacks, bunker-desks, and combat simulators to turn teachers into soldiers. For educators, surviving a shooting is a double trauma—a harrowing collision between their own survival instincts and responsibility to their students. To remain a protective figure, they often suppress their own terror and grief, leading to an emotional burnout that few other professions experience.
