Fontana, Calif., schools get high-powered rifles

[RotaryRevn]

http://news.yahoo.com/fontana-calif-schools-high-powered-rifles-184934771.html

[pdugan6]

[russt]

This is how to stop school massacres.

[SOCAL-PRINCE]

Awesome. I hope other departments follow their lead.

[Jeepergeo]

This is a really, really, a bad idea, and nothing more than a slobbering, knee-jerk reaction. Perhaps the County Sheriff should have this gear, but not school police.

Spray and Pray will no doubt mark the day when this ill-advised equipment gets deployed. It is bad enough to have bad guys hurt innocent folks, but to have innocents hurt or killed by the good guys is unacceptable.

North Hollywood - Bad guys fill the community with over 1,100 rounds. LEOs add 650 rounds to the air in the community, only 20 of which hit the targets, a 3% success rate. That's way too many rounds that could hit unintended targets. It's amazing that there were no random casualties in North Hollywood.

Law enforcement success should come through superior planning, intelligence, communications, and tactics, not through increases in firepower. Rest assured, these weapons will be removed from the possession of Fontana school police...its just a matter of when. The school board is already on this and they are miffed. I would not be surprised to see the Chief looking for a new job sometime soon.

[quig]

This is a really, really, a bad idea, and nothing more than a slobbering, knee-jerk reaction. Perhaps the County Sheriff should have this gear, but not school police.

Spray and Pray will no doubt mark the day when this ill-advised equipment gets deployed. It is bad enough to have bad guys hurt innocent folks, but to have innocents hurt or killed by the good guys is unacceptable.

North Hollywood - Bad guys fill the community with over 1,100 rounds. LEOs add 650 rounds to the air in the community, only 20 of which hit the targets, a 3% success rate. That's way too many rounds that could hit unintended targets. It's amazing that there were no random casualties in North Hollywood.

Law enforcement success should come through superior planning, intelligence, communications, and tactics, not through increases in firepower. Rest assured, these weapons will be removed from the possession of Fontana school police...its just a matter of when. The school board is already on this and they are miffed. I would not be surprised to see the Chief looking for a new job sometime soon.

Wow!

I just shook my head with this comment. I guess that everyone is entitled their opinions.

These rifles were ordered before the massacre. The only reason it drew attention was because they were delivered after the event.

You are just as guilty in saying this as the media is after every single shooting related event reported by the news. At the bottom of every article is "this comes one month after the Sandy Hook sh-----g".

If you truly believe that trained individuals shouldn't have the necessary equipment required to do their job, then we should just have uniformed guards without weapons. More counseling might be your answer.

This is my opinion.

[Librarian]

Dupe - in 2A

Folks, you REALLY need to read the 2A forum.