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Jan 24 2013, 3:49pm CST | by

A California school district campus police department has equipped its 14 officers with high-powered assault rifles to better prepare them to react in the case of a Sandy Hook Elementary School-type attack.

FONTANA, Calif. – Perhaps school police officials believe that providing high-powered semiautomatic rifles to school police officers to carry on campuses is similar to the addage of fighting fire...

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Fight gun violence in schools by giving schools high-powered rifles

Jan 24 2013, 3:49pm CST | by

A California school district campus police department has equipped its 14 officers with high-powered assault rifles to better prepare them to react in the case of a Sandy Hook Elementary School-type attack.

FONTANA, Calif. – Perhaps school police officials believe that providing high-powered semiautomatic rifles to school police officers to carry on campuses is similar to the addage of fighting fire with fire.

Fontana Unified School police were equipped with 14 Colt LE6940 rifles last fall. Police took delivery of the assuat rifles during the first week of December, a mere week before 26 students were killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Conn.

School Police Chief Billy Green said Wednesday that the Sandy Hook tragedy “further solidified the need to give our officers the tools they need to respond to an active shooter on campus.” The idea behind equipping officers with the armament was to address what Green termed as a “critical vulnerability” in the district school security system.

The district encompasses 45 school campuses. The 14 members of the campus police force contingent already carry sidearms. At a cost of $1,000 each, the weapons are capable of hitting a target at a distance and, the ammunition used, will pierce body armor.

Police officers had to qualify to use the rifles by completing a 40-hour training course. The rifles are secured in safes in the high school and middle school police department offices. School board approval was not required for the purchase. However, a school board member plans to bring the issue up at a meeting.



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