Crime
Posted by Charlie Kirk Staff - 5.28.22

Florida Sheriff Makes It Perfectly Clear What Will Happen to Potential School Shooters In His County

Florida Sheriff Makes It Perfectly Clear What Will Happen to Potential School Shooters In His County

Crime
Posted by Charlie Kirk Staff - 5.28.22

A noted Florida sheriff did not mince any words on Friday when discussing the massacre that occurred earlier in the week in Texas.

Sheriff Grady Judd in Polk County was clear when describing the extent his deputies would go to protect children in local school districts.

On Friday, Judd told reporters, “If you come to a school in this county, armed, we’re going to do our best through either our guardians, our school resource officers, or our school resource deputy sheriffs to eliminate the threat outside of the school before they ever get to the children. We’re trained to do that.”

“This is the last thing you’ll see before we put a bullet through your head if you’re trying to hurt our children,” Judd said while displaying a photo of two deputies pointing rifles. “We are going to shoot you graveyard dead if you come onto a campus, with a gun, threatening our children or shooting at us.”

The Daily Wire added:

Judd’s comments came in reaction to the school shooting that left 19 children and two adults dead on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, at Robb Elementary School.

The sheriff also commented on his deep remorse and mortification at the tragedy.

“I think, but for the grace of God, it could have been any one of us and our children or our grandchildren,” Judd said, going on to criticize the fact that local police reportedly waited almost an hour to eliminate the threat, calling that decision “unacceptable.”

“When you take your children to school healthy and well in the morning, you have every right and expectation to receive them back in the afternoon in the same healthy state,” Judd added.

Judd was joined at the podium by Ryan Petty, a father whose daughter was killed during the Parkland, Fla., shooting on February 14, 2018. Petty now works as an activist who advocates for making schools more secure, including allowing teachers to carry firearms while in school.

“Since the year 2000, there has yet to be a single case of someone being wounded or killed from a shooting, let alone a mass public shooting, between 6:00 AM and midnight at a school that lets teachers carry guns,” he noted via Twitter.

“People fear teachers irresponsibly using guns or students obtaining a teacher’s gun,” Petty continued. “But none of that has happened. There has been only one accidental discharge by a teacher in recent years, and that was outside of school hours.”

“In Florida, we have the Coach Aaron Feis Guardian program with rigorous training requirements,” he added, posting a photo of himself with Grady during Friday’s event. “I’ve been through the training. It was tough and Guardians are required to pass marksmanship training with a higher proficiency score than law enforcement.”

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