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Deputies will now carry AR-15 rifles on school grounds in Fla. county, sheriff says
ABC News ^ | 2/21/18 | JULIA JACOBO

Posted on 02/21/2018 4:48:42 PM PST by Libloather

Broward County sheriff's deputies will now carry AR-15 rifles while on school campuses following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last week, Sheriff Scott Israel announced today.

The new policy was implemented Wednesday morning. In lieu of gun lockers, the only time deputies will not be "slinging a rifle" is when the firearm is locked in police vehicles, Israel said.

The rifles will not be fully automatic and will only be handled by deputies who are "trained and qualified" to operate them, Israel said.

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KEYWORDS: ar15rifles; banglist; florida; sheriff
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To: faithhopecharity

GET THE FEDS OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS! and our daily life.


21 posted on 02/21/2018 5:00:12 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: colorado tanker

It might get more discreet in future. It seems like a good immediate move. “Don’t worry about shooters — we got you visibly covered.” There is a time for everything.


22 posted on 02/21/2018 5:00:13 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: BobL

I know of an air force national guard base with jet fighters where the MPs are issued M-16s (but not bullets) to patrol the perimeter and guard the gates. If challenged, they have an expensive club.

Really.


23 posted on 02/21/2018 5:02:35 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Demographics destroys cultures more completely than thermonuclear war.)
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To: Libloather

Probably good overall, but how long before youth-murderers figure out they can arm up by breaking a window or popping a trunk on a police vehicle? It would be a lot easier to bring 4 or 5 loaded mags in a backpack than a rifle.

Certainly says a lot about todays kids that cops must patrol them with “weapons of war”.


24 posted on 02/21/2018 5:03:15 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Libloather

In 1974, Israel endured the Ma’alot Massacre in which “Palestinian” terrorists took 115 people hostage at Netiv Meir Elementary School. Twenty-two children and three others were killed and 68 injured.

Israel now requires schools with 100 or more students to have a guard posted. The civilian police force handles the entire security system of all schools from kindergarten through college
https://townhall.com/columnists/lawrencemeyers/2018/02/15/president-trump-have-education-department-mandate-active-shooter-protocols-n2449726


25 posted on 02/21/2018 5:03:29 PM PST by donna (Old public service announcement: It's 10pm. Do you know where your children are?)
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To: Libloather

Trained and qualified? The leftist media acts as if it takes a formal weapons education, a degree in firearms if you will, to understand how to operate a weapon safely and effectively. It’s not high tech land, not rocket science, and it’s certainly not complex.


26 posted on 02/21/2018 5:03:35 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: BobL

Bob, funny you mention that. I remember standing watch at night alone on deck of an SSBN in the late 70s and we were not allowed to have a clip in our weapon. As a matter of fact I think it you chambered a round you’d have probably gone to Captain’s Mast.


27 posted on 02/21/2018 5:04:13 PM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: Chewbarkah

They’ve done it in Israel for years. Seems to work ok there.


28 posted on 02/21/2018 5:06:19 PM PST by Undecided 2012
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To: Libloather

Kinda a knee jerk reaction that keeps the AR 15 debate alive.

I carry a CZ 82 loaded with 12 rds of Hornaday XTP.

No chirruns freaked out and concealed


29 posted on 02/21/2018 5:06:25 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Libloather

This is outstanding!

WAY TO GO, FLORIDA!


30 posted on 02/21/2018 5:06:30 PM PST by chris37 (Take a week off racist >;-)
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To: Libloather

I wonder how these kids are going to react when they realize all their autistic sperging has only turned their school into a prison.


31 posted on 02/21/2018 5:06:30 PM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Libloather

Next Step:

Do the same thing at schools in other areas BEFORE another crazy shooter murders the students.

Don’t wait until 17 more are dead.


32 posted on 02/21/2018 5:07:30 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 Speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: Libloather

Aren’t those rifles evil?
The Ministry of Propaganda keeps telling me so.


33 posted on 02/21/2018 5:07:33 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Libloather

Scott Israel is more of a Dem operative than a professional LEO, so this is a big deal. It means one of the True Believers has tacitly admitted that the answer to bad guys with guns is more good guys with more guns. The progs must be freaking out over this.


34 posted on 02/21/2018 5:07:48 PM PST by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: wastoute

Look for gun violence to decline in 1 ...2. . .3.


35 posted on 02/21/2018 5:07:54 PM PST by LibsRJerks
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To: colorado tanker

Agreed


36 posted on 02/21/2018 5:09:23 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: dinodino
"Good. Smart move"

It would also help if the deputies were actually on campus, and not at the donut shop.

"School Resource Officer Scott Peterson was elsewhere on the 45-acre campus during the attack that left 17 dead and 16 wounded, Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie said Friday. “Staff and everyone responded quickly,” Runcie said, based on a briefing by the Broward Sheriff’s Office. “The SRO was communicated with but was on another part of campus.”"

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-school-shooting-missing-sro-20180216-story.html

37 posted on 02/21/2018 5:09:29 PM PST by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: wastoute

Not a prison, just guarded against more shooters (which are unlikely but the point is to head off the worry).


38 posted on 02/21/2018 5:09:50 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Undecided 2012
“... hire Guiliani for a national wide “broken glass policy.”

Excellent idea!

39 posted on 02/21/2018 5:11:10 PM PST by PsyCon
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To: clintonh8r

This IS a head-scratchin’ happy surprise.


40 posted on 02/21/2018 5:11:40 PM PST by txhurl (The Final Thunderdome: Two Americas enter, One America leaves.)
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