Packing Heat on Campus: Florida Schools Get Armed
By Rick Pearcey • February 13, 2019, 03:59 PM
Joe Kovacs reports at WND:
There's something new seen in the halls of Florida schools this year: guns out in the open.
Packing heat on the campus of the Manatee School for the Arts in Palmetto, Florida, is Harold Verdecia, a 39-year-old former infantryman in the U.S. Army, who completed tours of duty in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Armed with a Kel-Tec "Bullpup" rifle and a 9mm Glock 19X, Verdecia has been hired by the school with the sole responsibility of stopping an active shooter.
More than 2,000 students attend MSA, and Verdecia says he gets complimented frequently by many of them.
"They come and thank me all the time," he says on this video posted by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
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