In TN Students break into teacher's locker and steal AK 47

[redstateblues]

Heard it on the Nashville news. . The principal said he kept it there to protect the students. What could go wrong?
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/administrators-explain-policy-after-assault-rifle-stolen-from-macon-county-school

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Imagine if they had laid in waiting for the school day to start.

[SunSeeker]

3. That dumbass resource officer is lucky nobody got hurt with his AK 47.

The school and he would have faced quite a lawsuit.

[Straw Man]

4. Not a teacher -- a school "resource officer."

In other words, a cop.

Also, not an AK-47. I don't know of any US police departments that issue those. It was an AR-15.

And not students: former students. They had no business being there. They broke into the building at night.

It wan't a locker; it was a gun safe. That's a whole different degree of difficulty for the burglars.

"If you are in a situation where you are trying to take a bad guy out and there are kids everywhere, I would think that you would want the most precise weapon possible, and not one that was designed by the military to kill them if you even knick them with it," she said, adding that she believes the school resource officer should take any weapons home when they leave the campus.

Apparently she thinks that school resource officers should use sniper rifles to engage active shooters. A sniper rifle is more precise but is also far more likely than an AR to "kill them if you even nick them with it" due to its larger round. Furthermore, sniper rifles are bolt actions with a relatively low rate of fire, and snipers are therefore dependent on concealment if they wish to have any chance of success. Snipers are used by police in hostage situations but would be useless in countering any sort of active shooter assault.

The only thing that is remotely accurate in her statement is the part that I bolded.

[Sherman A1]

5. The gun shouldn't have been there

The burglars shouldn’t have been there and the reporter needs more practice in their alleged profession.