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Ep. 31 - Active Defense Strategies with Josh for Safer Communities
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- Nov 11, 2025
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Summary
Josh talks about BYRNA's efforts to empower communities against attacks. A recent Newsweek article reads as follows about the initiative: https://www.newsweek.com/company-offers-non-lethal-self-defense-option-to-schools-houses-of-worship-10979170 One company is looking to get its non-lethal self-defense device, the “Byrna,” into schools and house of worship as a means of increasing safety and deterring potential shootings. “In most cases, if somebody pulls out a Byrna to stop an assailant, they don't even need to fire a projectile,” Bryan Ganz, CEO of Indiana-based Byrna Technologies, told Newsweek in an interview. “Just indicating that they're prepared to defend themselves is generally sufficient.” School shootings have risen virtually year-over-year, hitting a peak of around 351 shootings in 2023, and around 336 in 2024, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. This year, so far, has seen 208 incidents, including the shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church school in Minnesota in August where two children were killed and over 30 people were injured.