Georgia School District Adding ARs
Approaching the first anniversary of the Newtown School Shooting tragedy, one school in the Southeast is trying to be proactive by putting modern rifles in the arsenals of those who would be tasked with protecting the school.
School shootings are, despicably, not new to the country. In fact they date back as far as 1764. What the anti-gunners would have you believe though is that these unspeakable crimes are more prevalent now that so-called assault rifles are available. Well, not to nitpick, but the firearm that the Newtown shooter used was a semi-automatic sporting rifle that was illegally acquired.
In Gainesville, Georgia, the local school district is considering adding patrol carbines to the school resource officer’s (SROs) tool kit. SRO’s are certified law enforcement officers who are stationed at the school to meet both local campus security issues and enforce local and state laws. In Gainesville, they are already armed with pistols and intermediate (less lethal) weapons, but not carbines.
Under a program submitted by the police department, they are seeking $6,000 and a political mandate to place a 5.56mm rifle in a safe in each of the three protected schools in the district. The police department and the school district would split the cost evenly. The rifle would only be accessible to the resource officer through fingerprint recognition. To prevent the threat of theft, it would not be left on school grounds when the officer is not on duty.
Read the rest in my article at Firearms Talk.com
