Documentary ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ explores industry built around school security
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A new documentary looks at how gun violence has led to school lockdown drills becoming a universal part of childhood in America. |
| 0:08.0 | That sparked the creation and explosive growth of an entire industry of active shooter preparedness products now worth an estimated $3 billion. |
| 0:18.0 | Lockdown one is by far our most popular. |
| 0:21.6 | It works on any door. |
| 0:23.6 | Sirens and strokes throughout the organization are now initiated. |
| 0:29.6 | It can move. |
| 0:30.6 | It has handles and you literally could move with the table if so desired. |
| 0:36.6 | Right after Sandy Hook happened, |
| 0:39.3 | teachers and schools started calling us. |
| 0:41.3 | When Sandy Hook happened, we realized that the children were at risk, |
| 0:45.3 | we said we've got this great technology. |
| 0:47.3 | And now we're in 4,000 schools across the country. |
| 0:50.3 | The documentary called Thoughts and Prayers |
| 0:53.3 | is available to stream now on HBO Max. I recently |
| 0:56.5 | spoke with the filmmaking team behind it, Zachary Kanapari and Jessica Dimock. Zach and Jessica, |
| 1:03.1 | welcome to the News Hour. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Thanks for having us. I wanted to get |
| 1:07.9 | into the story behind the film more in just a moment, but Zach, kick us off here and just tell us a little bit more about some of those pitches we just heard, some of the products we just heard about, the fact that this is a whole industry. |
| 1:19.9 | Most people don't even know about that's cropped up in recent years. |
| 1:23.2 | What more should we understand about that? |
| 1:25.4 | Yeah, the film documents sort of the various different training programs and products and cultural |
| 1:34.3 | effects of all these things across America due to gun violence. |
| 1:39.8 | And the products, you know, the scene that you guys just watched was from the National |
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