Concerned with the ongoing threat of mass shootings, a North Carolina county is putting highly powered AR-15-style rifles in every school for the coming school year the very same weapon used in numerous mass killings in recent years.The six schools in Madison County, a rural area north of Asheville, will now have the assault rifles stored on campus in gun safes, alongside room-breaching tools. The schools will also deploy a police school resource officer (SRO) inside for the coming school year, and install a panic button system.Local officials said the failed police response to the Uvalde mass school.
After the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, schools around the country pledged to boost security measures and increased the presence of law enforcement on campus — partly to