Well, it looks like the folks in North Carolina County want to make sure their kids are safe, and can actually have a fighting chance if, God forbid, a school shooter breaks in… they’re now going to make AR-15s available to staff, in case of emergency so they can defend the kids. And that’s how it should be… If my child was still “school age” I’d much prefer she attend a school like that, rather than be a sitting duck in one of those idiotic “Gun Free Zones.” Although truth be told, so many teachers are “woke” nowadays, I’d be homeschooling my kid if she was young.
Breitbart reported that North Carolina’s Madison County School District has put an AR-15 in a safe in every school in the county so the guns can be accessed for classroom defense in case of attack.
The Citizen Times notes that Madison County schools will also have breaching tools and extra magazines of ammunition for the rifles. The county’s decision was framed as a response to the May 24 Uvalde, Texas, attack.
USA Today reported that Madison County Sheriff Buddy Harwood pushed for the AR-15s following the attack, pointing out that he did not want evil people to be able to enter the school and hole up in a classroom with officers powerless to act.
Harwood said, “Hopefully we’ll never need it, but I want my guys to be as prepared as prepared can be.”
“We were able to put an AR-15 rifle and safe in all of our schools in the county. We’ve also got breaching tools to go into those safes. We’ve got extra magazines with ammo in those safes,” Harwood explained.
“In the event, we have someone barricaded in a door, we won’t have to wait on the fire department. 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.”
Honestly, just having this as a defense is a huge deterrent. What shooter will want to go into a school so heavily armed? I think this is a great idea. We use guns to protect those worthless crooks in Congress who have an 8 percent approval rating. Why on earth wouldn’t we do the same, and better for our nation’s children?