Posted on 08/07/2022 2:45:57 PM PDT by algore
A county sheriff in North Carolina has vowed to set up safes filled with AR-15 rifles and ammo at six local schools in response to the Uvalde school shooting .
Madison County Schools are beefing up on campus security for the upcoming 2022-2023 academic year by partnering with the Madison County Sheriff's Buddy Harwood to install heavy-duty weaponry that could be deployed in the event of a hostile intruder.
'We were able to put an AR-15 rifle and safe in all of our schools in the county,' Harwood further said. 'We've also got breaching tools to go into those safes. We've got extra magazines with ammo in those safes.'
Those breaching tools are designed to break through automatic-locking doors installed in schools which can only be opened from the inside, potentially trapping children and teachers in a room with an attacker.
Harwood says his office took the step after it was revealed that poor decision-making and a lack of training on situations involving an active shooter were reported as key failures in the Texas state house's report on investigations into the Uvalde massacre.
'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,' Sheriff Buddy Harwood told the Asheville Citizen-Times. 'I just want to make sure my deputies are prepared in the event that happens.'
Uvalde cops stood in a corridor for more than an hour in June while gunman Salvador Ramos, 18, murdered 19 children and two teachers before he was shot dead.
Madison County Schools Superintendent Will Hoffman said school district officials within the county have been constantly updated on the new safety measures and are also regularly meeting with local authorities, including Harwood, for training with instructors from Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College.
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(there was one exception and that guy is a hero in my book)
A long time ago when I was in high school we had archery and shooting after school, I was not so good but it was still fun
If you saw a pickup in the parking lot with some kind of rack, and if it had at least one .22 that was normal.
Today if you see a guy in the girls dressing room we are told that is normal.
At least we have cops to protect us and our children
Can’t solve cowardice with a safe full of guns and ammo.
Why not pack the safe with F-14s and nuclear bombs. About as useful. You need people with testicular fortitude, which means women as well in this context, who are willing and able to put down the nut job du jour with whatever weapon. A snub-nosed S&W .38 revolver would serve as well, or even a can of dog food, as in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. But if you don’t have the nerve to do something effective, you’re useless, no matter what you have in your hands or in a safe somewhere.
Yeah, two years ago Marx touched it! Suspended one year on the spot. A senior says he has the combination but that's probably marlarky. Some kids at another school are saying they've hacked the cameras.
The guardians will soon tire but the kids’ energy will always be dialed to eleven.
What if the shooter is between your class and that safe? Is the combination school staff knowledge?
I have a few pair of those, and some of the silver ones too.
Sucks how the whole NWTM thing got messed up in the end.
Now is a good time to do that. With the kids going back to school and the ***hole demonRATS desperate to win the midterms, there is no telling who many “mass shootings” the RATS are setting up right now. If they murder infants in the womb, they don’t have any problems with massacring school kids.
Maybe they should stock police stations with the same thing.
I would think teachers whom had taught students in danger, would be nothing short of heroic in a desperate situation, and far more likely to intercede than stranger cops ordered to await instructions.
Not so good as it sounds. It takes some time to retrieve the rifles and to load them. Better the Florida(and other states) way of training teachers and getting them CCW permits and allowing them to carry in school with appropriate signage by the doors.
Looks like Christmas tree balls.
At a company where I worked the operations manager had the company’s pair of balls. When major important decisions were about to be made, he brought them out of the cabinet.
The steel balls were about 3” in diameter and were welded to a short piece of 3/8” Proof Coil Chain. It was not light. smile.
Who is going to be the one that USES the AR-15 ?
An AR-15 doesn’t shoot by itself.
Who is going to be the one that USES the AR-15 ?
An AR-15 doesn’t shoot by itself.
lottery?
“Not it!” “Not it!”
don’t throw me into the briar patch...
May as well be, Ashville is lefty hippie flower child land. Not sure if anybody there has the functional knowledge of an AR-15.
For the right salary I could be available.
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