Gun Violence Show Downward Trend, But Is It Enough?
While Omnilert’s 2025 statistics reveal encouraging progress in school safety, the reality of 100+ gun deaths per day demands a shift toward AI detection and integrated prevention.
- By Ralph C. Jensen
- March 06, 2026
Known leader in emergency communications, Omnilert released its 2025 Gun Violence Statistics, showing school-related gun violence trends show improvements in several areas.
Dave Fraser, the CEO of Omnilert, said. “All improvements matter, and we don’t take that lightly.”
Fraser is correct, but the numbers are staggering no matter how you look at them. Last year, the United States recorded 38,762 gun-violence deaths, and this is an improvement over 2024. Encouraging, yes, it is; however, gun violence is still a daily risk for schools, businesses, healthcare facilities, places of worship and public spaces.
This reinforces the need for sustained prevention efforts and readiness, But still, this averages more than 100-gun deaths per day. Much work remains to make schools and public spaces safer. Breaking down the 2025 numbers, 4,463 children and teens were killed or injured by gun violence. Schools must strengthen prevention and preparedness. No one is immune. In the past decade, every state has experienced at least one mass shooting.
In the end, a school shooting is far-reaching.
A few years ago, we hired a writer for Campus Security Today, and a horrible school tragedy occurred and our writer was frozen. She could not move the story. She resigned a couple of weeks later. I wondered if that would ever happen to me. I am a seasoned journalist with plenty of knicks and bruises, but then Uvalde happened. I was frozen, though the story appeared.
No single measure can prevent gun violence but a trained staff, access controls, education and preparedness along with AI-based gun detection, will help spot threats earlier and respond a little quicker.
Officials now must get a handle on swatting and false emergency threats, which have increased. These also carry real threats such as disrupting operations, creating fear, straining public resources.
One incident is too many, and the progress is to be applauded as lives have been saved and the task of education can go on uninhibited.
This article originally appeared in the March April 2026 issue of Campus Security Today.
About the Author
Ralph C. Jensen is the Publisher/Editor in chief of Campus Security Today.