GA School Dist. Looking at Placing Rifles in Offices

[PegLeg45]

Well, it's a start.....
Maybe when they realize that having the rifles in the building, and provided the rifles themselves 'behave' and don't start trouble, then maybe it could pave the way for teachers to be armed (a long-shot, I know, but hey).

Georgia school district mulls placing rifles in school offices

A school system in north Georgia is considering a proposal that would allow district police to store rifles in school offices in case they're needed to defend students in a school shooting.

Gainesville City Schools Superintendent Merrianne Dyer said school resource officers would have access  to rifles placed at Gainesville High School, Gainesville Middle School and Wood's Mill Academy.

"These things happen quickly, they happen unexpectedly and in places and locations where we can't anticipate. Any lapse of time to get a weapon would be detrimental in an emergency," Dyer told MyFoxAtlanta.com.

Dyer said the weapons would be locked inside safes in the offices of school resource officers. She said all school resource officers are armed, but recent training showed that handguns they carry would not be effective in long hallways or corridors.

Gainesville Lt. Jay Parrish told MyFoxAtlanta.com that officers should not be required to leave a school during an emergency to retrieve certain types of weapons.

"If we have an officer in the school and there is and there is an intruder that needs to be addressed, we don't want that officer to leave the school because he then may not have access back in," Parrish said. "Once we make entry and we breach the door, we're not leaving until the situation is over with."

The Times of Gainesville reported that Gainesville police had approached the schools about the idea in April, shortly after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut. The school board is expected to vote on the issue in October.


Read more:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/05/georgia-school-district-mulls-placing-rifles-in-school-offices/#ixzz2e27P7m9x

[tombogan03884]

Next thing you know they will have a youth shooting league !

[PegLeg45]

 

We had a rifle team in High School (AFJROTC). The indoor range was at the Army Reserve Center one block over from the campus. We used M1903 Springfield (training rifles) in .22LR.

And they trusted us to store, handle, and carry said rifles and ammo <GASP!> on campus!!!   

Now, the only thing remotely similar is the 4-H Air Rifle Team.