A Florida sheriff is equipping school resource deputies with large rifles and “new style” tactical uniforms on school campuses in Brevard County following a school year that ended with the Uvalde mass shooting.
“You are not coming into my schools and killing our children,” Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said in an Aug. 9 video. “I firmly believe that if you do not meet violence with violence, you will be violently killed.”
The upgraded weaponry will give deputies the level of preparedness needed to “instantly address” threats on school campuses with a level of force necessary to neutralize threats and save the lives of innocent teachers and children, the sheriff said….