GARDEN VALLEY, ID — School administrators in Garden Valley, ID are taking student and staff security seriously. And further, they’re putting their money where their mouth is.

School board minutes from the most recent board meeting have detailed their purchase of four rifles and 2,000 rounds of ammunition.

The rifles cost $680 each.

The district is also considering spending up to $2000 on body armor vests and extra magazines.

Superintendent Marc Gee said, “We just have to protect our kids and we didn’t want to do it in a haphazard way.

The guns won’t stay locked in a gun safe with teachers unaware and untrained in how to use them.

No, before the guns were even purchased, school staff who volunteered received training from the Boise County Sheriff’s Office. Further, the district will post signs outside the school entrances telling any visitors that “our school is armed.”

When asked about the community’s response, Superintendent Gee said that it was overwhelmingly positive.

“It’s been positive – I have yet to have a community member come in and say, ‘Why are you doing this?'” Gee said.

The Garden Valley school district is located about an hour north of Boise.

The school has just over 200 students and is only reachable by Boise police via the mountainous Banks Lowman Road.

This distance from a fully equipped police department was a factor in the decision to arm teachers and staff.

Gee explained: “(If something were to happen) we would have a 30- to 45-minute potential wait time for police to arrive. The loss of life would be just enormous.”

For this district, when seconds count, the police are nearly an hour away.

Notice that no liberals are crying about safety here, because in this mountainous, rural area, most people are forced to face the reality that the superintendent sees.

There’s nobody coming in time to save us, so we have to protect ourselves and our students on our own.

And that’s fundamentally the difference between those who support gun rights and those who think that only cops and authorities should be armed.

We realize that we are responsible for our own safety and the safety of those around us.

The Left wants the State to be responsible for keeping everybody safe and are willing to trade away all of our rights for that false sense of security.

Kudos to this school!

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