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(The Hill) The school system in Madison County, N.C., plans to put AR-15 rifles in emergency safes in each of its six schools as a part of a plan for enhanced security in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting earlier this year.
We were able to put an AR-15 rifle and safes in all of our schools in the county, Sheriff Buddy Harwood told the Asheville Citizen-Times. Weve also got breaching tools to go into those safes. Weve got extra magazines with ammo in those safes.
The breaching tools are intended to allow police to break down barricaded doors without having to wait for the fire department.
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Harwood said that he wants to make sure my deputies are prepared in the event of a school shooting, especially after the Uvalde police failed to take down the shooter at Robb Elementary School for over an hour.
Those officers were in that building for so long, and that suspect was able to infiltrate that building and injure and kill so many kids, said Harwood.
I do not want to have to run back out to the car to grab an AR, because thats time lost. Hopefully, well never need it, but I want my guys to be as prepared as prepared can be, he added.
The schools where the safes will be located are Brush Creek Elementary, Hot Springs Elementary, Mars Hill Elementary, Madison Middle, Madison High and Madison Early College High.
Madison County Schools Superintendent Will Hoffman said that the systems administration has been in regular contact with Harwood and the rest of the police department about school security.
Our partnership with law enforcement is a critical part of our daily preparations. We have to be vigilant and prepared for any possibility at any time. Our students have to feel safe in order to be safe, said Hoffman.
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Harwood acknowledged that people might have concerns about AR-15s being located in school, but he argued that it would be safer on the whole.
I hate that weve come to a place in our nation where Ive got to put a safe in our schools, and lock that safe up for my deputies to be able to acquire an AR-15. But, we can shut it off and say it wont happen in Madison County, but we never know, he said.
Harwood continued: I want the parents of Madison County to know were going to take every measure necessary to ensure our kids are safe in this school system. If my parents, as a whole, want me to stand at that door with that AR strapped around that officers neck, then Im going to do whatever my parents want as a whole to keep our kids safe.
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Turbineguy
(37,319 posts)Which are always legally obtained.
yankee87
(2,170 posts)What can go wrong? This will not end well. W
When will this country call the NRA a terrorist organization?
elleng
(130,865 posts)Sounds perfectly safe and sound to me!
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)NewHendoLib
(60,014 posts)Bucky
(53,997 posts)with the Luger the school issues to each member of the faculty"
onecaliberal
(32,826 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,281 posts)Many schools have armed officers on campus.
onecaliberal
(32,826 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,281 posts)I hope you are right.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Hopefully, at some time in the future, historians and students will be whomper-jawed at just how far our early 21st Century society would go to avoid regulating firearms. "One county in North Carolina actually turned their schools into armories!"
yankee87
(2,170 posts)You are so right. The craziness of ammosexuals wanting guns everywhere is a stain on the country.
Chainfire
(17,530 posts)Can you imagine a AR shootout in a school? Most of the bullets flying would be addressed to whom it may concern. To stop a shooter, requires courage and finesse; spray and pray is not an option.
Having access to a deadly weapon does not make you a weapons expert a cop, a soldier or a hero. How about, instead of adding more assault weapons to the mix, we get the damn things off the streets? It has worked in other nations and it is the only thing that will work here. We all know it, but we have not summoned the willpower to demand it in such a way that the government will listen more to us than the gun industry.
crickets
(25,962 posts)It wasn't the lack of armament that caused that standoff to drag on for so long.
"I do not want to have to run back out to the car to grab an AR..."
But you likely will have to do so to find the breaching tool, no? Good luck with that.
There's now a morbid countdown until someone figures out how to breach one of those safes for themselves to use those guns on students and faculty. Keeping AR-15s and extra ammo on an elementary school campus is horrifically stupid.
The answer is not more guns. The answer is never more guns, and never will be.
Idiots.
Phoenix61
(17,002 posts)one of those right? Just another expensive toy so they can avoid do anything meaningful.
Emile
(22,669 posts)Thtwudbeme
(7,737 posts)Some progressives are trying to move in.
Earth-shine
(3,994 posts)As soon as you leave Asheville, you are in the South.
Go just a few more miles, it becomes the deep South.
48656c6c6f20
(7,638 posts)Fuck the chicken in every pot, I want my Freedom AR 15!
Another glorious day in GunMurka!
Aristus
(66,316 posts)"they burned women to death if they even suspected them of being witches" story of the 21st Century.
Kaleva
(36,294 posts)The guns were kept unsecured in the principals office until school was let out.
former9thward
(31,981 posts)We would bring our rifles to school and store them in our lockers for use after school. This was not some small school. It was the largest HS in the state, 4000 students, in an urban area.
haele
(12,647 posts)What's the security like in the room they'll be putting this safe in, again?
What type of safe is it? Who has the combo or keys?
What if a school shooter barricades him or herself in the room with the safe.
Haele
crickets
(25,962 posts)IcyPeas
(21,858 posts)Not sure how this would actually play out in a real situation.
Piratedog
(256 posts)School boards in that part of the state are very conservative. Theyre pretty much crazy in every NC county but way red in the western counties.