The North Carolina school system will install AR-15s in each school building this coming school year in a dramatic move intended to enhance school safety. to place
Madison County Sheriff's Department and school officials announced that classes would be canceled later this month following the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which killed 19 students and two teachers. When we started, we decided to equip all six schools in the county with weapons.
Each gun will be locked in a safe, as well as spare ammunition and sabotage tools, Sheriff Buddy Harwood told the Asheville Citizen Times. 12}. He noted that delays in responding by law enforcement to stop the attack on Robb Elementary School in May were the basis for the action.
"That policeman stayed in the building for a long time,and the suspect was able to break into the building and injure and kill so many children." Harwood told the newspaper. "I just want to make sure my deputies are prepared just in case."
According to the Citizen Times, each of his six schools, including three elementary schools, has a school resource officer. It is scheduled to be
An officer from the Asheville Buncombe Technical Community is training with instructors at the college, he said.
"If you build a barricade, you don't have to wait for the fire department to get there," Harwood told the outlet.
"I hope we don't need it, but I want my men to be as prepared as possible."
August 22nd School Ahead of the start of this year, Madison County Superintendent Will Hoffman said school leaders are meeting with local law enforcement to consider various safety measures.
"It's unfortunate that a situation has arisen in this country where we have to put up safes in schools and lock them so that agents can get AR-15s," Harwood told the Citizen Times.
"But you can stop it and say it's not going to happen in Madison County, but we don't know. Dear Madison County Parents, I hope this school system will keep your child safe.
"If my parents as a whole were to hang an AR around that officer's neck I'm going to do whatever the parents want to keep the kids safe if they want to stand in."
with post wire
