I hate to sound jaded, but living in Baltimore, I hear about a lot of shootings.
And it kind of just becomes noise after a while.
At least until it happens at a school.
Unfortunately, school shootings have become devastatingly routine on a national level. Yet they never cease to disgust.
That was the case for me last week when a double shooting sent a Baltimore high school into lockdown.
In that instance, both a 15-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy were shot behind a local high school.
Thankfully, both survived.
But disturbingly, they were also just two of seven teenagers shot within the span of a week.
This is frustrating. It's a demoralizing problem to have - both locally and nationally.
That's why I continue to hold out hope for solutions.
And mercifully, one may be around the corner.
You see, for the past five years I've been researching technologies that could help solve this problem.
One such solution includes camera technology that's capable of scanning people for weapons, as well as AI-based facial recognition.
It has 500 types of weapons in its database. It can tell if you're carrying a gun, knife, or even a bomb. And it can compare a person's face with a database of known terrorists or criminals.
As such, it can thwart a terrorist attack before it even begins.
The technology has already been tapped to provide security solutions at high-profile events like the Super Bowl, the Rose Bowl, concerts, billion-dollar boat shows, and Silicon Valley technology conferences.
And no one even knew it.
However, not everyone is comfortable with facial recognition technology - especially when it comes to children and schools.
And if that's the case, that's fine, because another technology I've looked into uses a different type of body-scanning technology that is more akin to airport body scanners.
In fact, the guys who invented those spinning cylinders many of us pass through on our way to catch a flight have invented a new, more advanced, more efficient body scanner.