The public demanded it! You can’t just be an administrator and say, “well, school shootings are bad, but statistically they aren’t a problem, so we don’t need to do anything.” Well, you can try to make this argument, but you’ll be out of your job quickly.
Kids die in auto accidents at the rate of auto accidents, a tragedy, a common tragedy, so no one pays much attention to it. But school shootings, they aren’t common at all, they are horrific, and no one wants to be caught doing nothing about it, and since we can’t get rid of the guns in the USA, active shooter drills it is.
To follow on from "the public demanded it" and bring it back to the original article... why is the media publishing these photos? Because the public want them to. The vast majority of newspapers are profit making enterprises, and they're giving customers what they want. Blaming the media here feels like missing the forest for the trees.
> You can’t just be an administrator and say, “well, school shootings are bad, but statistically they aren’t a problem, so we don’t need to do anything.”
FWIW, you are talking to the son of a school administrator who did just that. (or, more specifically, who facilitated the introduction of text alert systems, security systems, etc, but who successfully resisted metal detectors and active shooter drills)
Kids die in auto accidents at the rate of auto accidents, a tragedy, a common tragedy, so no one pays much attention to it. But school shootings, they aren’t common at all, they are horrific, and no one wants to be caught doing nothing about it, and since we can’t get rid of the guns in the USA, active shooter drills it is.