A prototype of the Biofire Smart Gun is seen at Biofire Technologies headquarters in Broomfield, Colorado, U.S., April 18, 2022. REUTERS/Matt Mills McKnightAt 10:11 a.m.
on March 27, a shooter walked up to an entrance at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn., andthrough a glass door, striking and killing a custodian, Mike Hill. The killer went on to fatally shoot three adults and three children.
Arwari, who runs the university's Neuro-Cognitive Kinesiology lab, told Yahoo News that his inspiration came"from seeing the situations like the Pulse Nightclub [shooting] ... and even before that, the Bataclan [theater] in France,” referring to the 2016 shooting in Orlando in which 49 people were killed, and an attack in Paris in 2015 in which 90 people died.
“All you can think about is, ‘I need to get this out of my face.’ So, instinctually, you turn away, and you want to go in the other direction,” he said., also known as a stun grenade, often used by police, but said the Lightguard is safer, since flash-bangs can cause permanent hearing loss or severe burns. Lightguard also serves as an emergency trigger to alert police.
“It's certainly important to think about how we put seconds on the clock for people,” Dr. Jaclyn Schildkraut, executive director of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, told Yahoo News. Arwari said, however, the Lightguard operates on a business-to-business model, selling to businesses and institutions, not the general public, to prevent misuse.
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