It is valuable to seek out answers to safer schools. Government and community leaders are looking at a variety of options that include armed guards, stronger gun control, regulation of the video game industry, and identifying better mental health initiatives, among others.

As part of a $4.2 million plan to increase school security, elementary schools in LA will be patrolled by 440 new security aides equipped with vests and radios.

The National School Shield Program recommends a model program that will train school personnel to carry firearms. 

An interactive map that pinpoints which Iowa schools do or do not have adequate security forces has drawn the ire of much of the community. 

The contentious proposal to reinstate the assault weapons ban has been postponed, but measures to extend background checks to private gun sales and fund school security improvements have been voted through to the Senate. 

Fontana Unified School District's school police officers will now check out a semiautomatic rifle each morning to bring with them on their patrols from school to school.

The New Canaan School District will add five new security officers, new two-way radios and cell service boosters in order to bolster security at the district's schools.

LAPD officers will "adopt" a school and visit for 30 minutes everyday, the new policy states, talking with teachers, parents and staff, in an effort to stave off violence after the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings in Newtown, Conn.

The "Armani" of bulletproof clothing has created a new line specifically for U.S. and Canadian schoolchildren, ages 8 to 14. 

Backpacks with carbon nanotube armor plating have gone viral this week after the devastating shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday.