{"id":18758,"date":"2019-12-02T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T15:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=18758"},"modified":"2019-12-02T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T15:35:01","slug":"18758","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=18758","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"headline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.secondamendmentdaily.com\/2019\/12\/idaho-school-district-buys-rifles-warns-visitors-building-is-armed\/\">Idaho School District Buys Rifles, Warns Visitors: Building Is \u2018Armed\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GARDEN VALLEY, ID \u2014 School administrators in Garden Valley, ID are taking student and staff security seriously. And further, they\u2019re putting their money where their mouth is.<\/p>\n<p>School board minutes from the most recent board meeting have detailed their purchase of four rifles and 2,000 rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The rifles cost $680 each.<\/p>\n<p>The district is also considering spending up to $2000 on body armor vests and extra magazines.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Marc Gee said, \u201cWe just have to protect our kids and we didn\u2019t want to do it in a haphazard way.<\/p>\n<p>The guns won\u2019t stay locked in a gun safe with teachers unaware and untrained in how to use them.<\/p>\n<p>No, before the guns were even purchased, school staff who volunteered received training from the Boise County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Further, the district will post signs outside the school entrances telling any visitors that \u201cour school is armed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the community\u2019s response, Superintendent Gee said that it was overwhelmingly positive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been positive \u2013 I have yet to have a community member come in and say, \u2018Why are you doing this?&#8217;\u201d Gee said.<\/p>\n<p>The Garden Valley school district is located about an hour north of Boise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho School District Buys Rifles, Warns Visitors: Building Is \u2018Armed\u2019 GARDEN VALLEY, ID \u2014 School administrators in Garden Valley, ID are taking student and staff security seriously. And further, they\u2019re 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=18758\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18759,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18758\/revisions\/18759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}