Police request funds for AR-15s in North Dakota city schools

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 3:31 pm CDT, Monday, August 13, 2018

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Police in Bismarck, North Dakota, requested funding in the city's 2019 budget for equipment that includes AR-15 rifles for school resource officers.

Bismarck Public Schools and the Bismarck Police Department plan to share the cost of purchasing nearly $26,000 worth of AR-15s, gun safes, additional bulletproof vests and medical kits, the Bismarck Tribune reported .

The district won't fund the acquisition of firearms and the rifles will be locked up in the schools, according to district officials.

Police and school officials began considering rifles for school resource officers after a gunman in February killed 17 people at a school in Parkland, Florida, said Lt. Jason Stugelmeyer, who oversees the department's Police Youth Bureau. The bureau includes six school resource officers.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Bismarck-police-request-funding-rifles-for-school-13152054.php

[msongs]

1. sick in the head the lot of them nt

[erronis]

2. Assault rifles? What could possibly go wrong with more rapid-fire killer bullets spraying around?

I would think a few 12-gauge shotguns loaded with rock salt would work, at least to distract the target. And far less likely to kill/maim the innocents.

[ManiacJoe]

5. Not assault rifles.

Semi-auto carbines, thus not rapid fire.

The AR-15 is actually a good choice in that the .223 round penetrates the fewest walls when the shooter misses the target.
Not sure having more guns at the schools really solves the problem at hand....

[ileus]

6. Couldn't one call them "counter-assault" rifles.

[Journeyman]

3. I wonder how they'll share the cost for the liability insurance it will be impossible to attain. . .

[Spartacus101]

4. Totally Bananas

and the rifles will be locked up in the schools,

...and will be totally safe until the whack job gets the keys!

Passed some time in Kalispell, and noted the chainsaw stuck in the beam of the barroom. "Uh, that's one of our best customers..."

Yup. "He's a lumberjack, and he's OK!"

[7962]

7. Should be a smaller barrel weapon for close in defense.

Its less likely that the officer would be defending against someone outside in a wide open area, more likely to be in a classroom or hallway.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

8. Gees,

what could possibly go wrong with this . . . .

[tclambert]

9. We need a couple of ED 209s for each school.

You need one for each floor of the building because they aren't too good on stairs.