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Fake reports of gun violence — known as swatting — have surged in schools this fall. “Students in the classroom don't know that it's not a shooting. So mentally, they're thinking that they're about to die,” said David Riedman, founder of K-12 School Shooting Database.

There have been shootings at U.S. schools almost every year since 1966, but in 2021 there were a record 250 shooting incidents.

More and more US schools are confiscating guns from students and having to deal with calls falsely reporting school shootings.

The phrase 'mental health' has been used repeatedly in politics to avoid the gun control debate. But there was a significant lack of access to mental health care in Uvalde prior to the shooting.

OAK PARK, Ill. -- Keyon Robinson was just a month away from graduating from high school when he took a loaded gun, placed it in his backpack and headed to campus.

Communities are struggling with how to support students and intervene before weapons are brought to class.

In May, Oak Park police got a tip and arrested student Keyon Robinson with a gun on his high school campus. Robinson says he brought the gun in a backpack for protection after fighting with a relative. He's now 19 and calls his decision senseless. Meanwhile, Oak Park and River Forest High School is tightening security, as it tries to reassure a worried community. Robinson's case highlights a larger debate for students and schools around security and second chances.

Keyon Robinson was just a month away from graduating from high school when he took a loaded gun, placed it in his backpack and headed to campus.

As kids prepare to go back to school, law enforcement is preparing for any potential active shooter situations.

Mom and art teacher Cassie Arnold has crafted the school uniform bulletproof dress for her middle child, who is attending her first-grade classes in a Texas school.