Posted on 08/06/2022 4:04:08 AM PDT by Libloather
One school district in North Carolina is taking school safety into its own hands, with plans to put AR-15 rifles in emergency safes throughout county schools.
Madison County, North Carolina, hopes that by putting AR-15s in schools it will increase security and curb gun violence. After the deadly Uvalde school shooting, which killed 19 students and two teachers, schools are preparing for the worst.
"Hopefully we'll never need it, but I want my guys to be as prepared as prepared can be," Sheriff Buddy Harwood told the Asheville Citizen-Times.
If an active-shooter situation occurs, the sheriff's office has stored AR-15r rifles in locked safes at each of the six Madison County schools. The safes also contain extra magazines, ammunition and breaching tools, Harwood said.
"In the event we have someone barricaded in a door, we won't have to wait on the fire department," Harwood added. "We'll have those tools to be able to breach that door if needed. I do not want to have to run back out to the car to grab an AR, because that's time lost."
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.
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As it should be. Now, to have trained school personnel, and not just deputies, enabled to access the tools.
THIS. The rifle in the safe won’t do any good if it stays locked in the safe or no one is trained to use it effectively.
Yes, I hope they all are required to take a firearms safety course. The last thing we need is to have people, who don’t even know which end goes toward the enemy.
Emergency safes? Do you have to call somebody to bring the key to the safe in case of emergency, or just break the glass with the ax next to the safe?
Armed responders need to have a firearm on their person.
LOL...Madison County borders to the north of Buncombe County, home of far-left Asheville. This area is loaded with Trump-supporting mountain folks...good for them!
Bless this sheriff!!!
My county. During the War of Northern Aggression we became known as “Bloody Madison”. The name stuck and was appropriate until 1986 when we were able to vote out the old longtime corrupt sheriff during federal Operation Westvote. Read Met Her on the Mountain, by Mark Pinsky, for an inside look at our county under that filthy, conscience-absent sheriff and his henchmen.
In the time it takes to open a safe five or six children could be shot. Florida does it right. Teachers and staff are allowed to bear arms school and there are signs on the school door to that effect. These schools will never experience gunfire. School shooters may be suicidal but they want to kill a bunch of folks before they accomplish their own demise. Otherwise they just go out and shoot at a cop on the street.
I wonder how many of those kids know how to shoot? Good news....
Protecting a school with a uniformed police officer is just a notice of who to shoot first. Kill the officer then have at it with the students and teachers. If the whole staff might be armed, that alters the prospects and the suicidal shooter heads for a gun-free zone. He needs to kill a lot of other people as revenge for his own mental malady.
What good does that do if the people entrusted to use them turn tail and run away?
sounds like a good place to live. and it warms my heart to hear the old non woke actual pre-pc description of the “civil war” of what is was originally called: War of northern aggression.
Interesting mix in this area now...heavily-armed locals and the ‘outdoorsy, tree-hugging types’ who see mountain counties as their personal recreation area. I saw an AT hiker yesterday walking down the road who was a wearing a full-length SKIRT! No, it was NOT one of the Scottish highlands crowd with a kilt...just a soy boy wearing a freaking SKIRT! That is not going to play well here in the mountains...at least, I hope it doesn’t.
“Incase of emergency, break glass... then chamber the first round, and aim at whoever is threatening the school”
Yeah butmitmwont take 78 minutes to get them out. But yeah, teachers need to be armed and trained in crisis situations too.
What use are these rifles locked in a safe?
The responding deputies surely have pistols adequate for stopping the school shooter. These crimes aren’t long range murders.
How many will die in the time from first notice of the criminal to the deputies arrive?
Best to have several trained,armed school staff WHOSE IDENTITY IS NOT PUBLIC so would -be murderers and crazy anti-gun activists won’t know who to target.
I’m not sure if an AR15 is the best firearms option inside a school. What do gun users think? That is, what do you think would be the optimal gun to arm teachers with?
School corridors are in some ways like trenches. In WWI, the best combo for trenches was decided to be a pistol in one hand and a trench knife in the other.
For more open areas, I would think a pistol would track faster than a rifle. You might also equip with bear spray to use opportunistically.
Thoughts and more thoughts.
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