Posted February 3, 2016 8:12 pm by Comments

By Jenn Jacques

About 400 students in the public school system of Okay, Oklahoma will now be protected by armed staff. The school district began advocating for armed staff based on HB 2014, the Special Reserve School Resource Officer Act.

Superintendent Charles McMahan spoke exclusively with News On 6, saying small school districts like his do not have the luxury of having campus police officers or leaving student’s safety to local law enforcement. Specifically, the Wagoner County Sheriff’s department which employs only one deputy to protect and serve the 733 residents of Okay.

“If something were to ever happen and I didn’t try to defend my kids, I couldn’t live with that,” McMahan says. “That’s kind of why we put this in place.”

Okay school campuses have posted four brand-new signs which read, “Please be aware that certain staff members at Okay Public Schools can be legally armed and may use whatever force is necessary to protect our students.”

“Hopefully, that will never take place,” he says. “But if it saves a life, it saves a life.”

This isn’t the first school district to recognize the need to protect their students’ safety with more than a Gun-Free School Zone Sign. …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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