Fontana, Calif., schools gets AR15s it ordered pre-Newtown:

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FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — The high-powered semiautomatic rifles recently shipped to school police in this Southern California city look like they belong on a battlefield rather than in a high school, but officials here say the weapons could help stop a massacre like the one that claimed the lives of 26 students and educators in Connecticut just weeks ago.

Fontana Unified School District police purchased 14 of the Colt LE6940 rifles last fall, and they were delivered the first week of December — a week before the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Over the holiday break, the district's 14 school police officers received 40 hours of training on the rifles. Officers check them out for each shift from a fireproof safe in the police force's main office.

Fontana isn't the first district to try this. Other Southern California districts also have rifle programs — some that have been in operation for several years. Fontana school police Chief Billy Green said he used money from fingerprinting fees to purchase the guns for $14,000 after identifying a "critical vulnerability" in his force's ability to protect students. The officers, who already wear sidearms, wouldn't be able to stop a shooter like the one in Connecticut, he said Wednesday.

"They're not walking around telling kids, 'Hurry up and get to class' with a gun around their neck," the chief said. "Parents need to know that if there was a shooter on their child's campus that was equipped with body armor or a rifle, we would be limited in our ability to stop that threat to their children."

Some parents and students, however, reacted with alarm to the news that school resource officers were being issued the rifles during their shifts. The officers split their time between 44 schools in the district and keep the rifles in a safe at their assigned school or secured in their patrol car each day before checking the weapon back in to the school police headquarters each night.

"If the wrong person gets ahold of the gun, then we have another shooter going around with a gun. What happens then, if that situation occurs?" said James Henriquez, a 16-year-old sophomore who just enrolled at Fontana High School this week after moving from Texas.

Other students said they felt disillusioned that officials would spend money on semiautomatic rifles while the district eliminated its comprehensive guidance counseling program two years ago.

"They should get guns, but not as many and not spend so much money on them," said student Elizabeth Tovar. "They should use the money to get back our counselors because a lot of us really need them."

The district saved millions by restructuring guidance services, said Superintendent Cali Olsen-Binks.

"I understand that people are looking at the layoffs, but $14,000 and $7 million is a huge disparity," she said.

The 40,000-student district came up with the school rifle program after consulting with top school safety experts and looking at what other large districts had done, said Olsen-Binks.

Santa Ana Unified School District, in nearby Orange County, has had a rifle program for about two years that operates similarly to the one Fontana has started, said police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna.

The Los Angeles School Police Department also deploys rifles to its officers as needed, the department said in a statement. It would not say how many rifles district police have but said the weapons are kept in the department's armory and are handed out and returned daily.

The San Bernardino City Unified School District police force purchased four Bushmaster semiautomatic rifles last July, said Linda Bardere, a district spokeswoman.

Fontana is a city of about 200,000 people east of Los Angeles.

"I came from a teaching background, and it's appalling to think that we'd have to have security officers — let alone armed police officers — on our campuses. But the bottom line is ... everybody has anxiety over school safety right now," Olsen-Binks said. "Our police officers said they would take a bullet for these kids and because they are willing to put their lives on the line, they need to be equipped for all scenarios."

Only sergeants are authorized to check out the rifles from the police armory, where they are kept. All officers have been trained for years to use the rifles.

The Fontana rifle purchase did not require approval from the school board but member Leticia Garcia said she believes there should have been a public discussion before they were purchased.

"We're talking about a war-zone rifle, and so are we going to militarize our public schools?" Garcia asked. "We have to provide a safe haven for people to learn ... but this, to me, seems a little bit too much."

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Associated Press writers Robert Jablon and Christina Hoag in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

There is a movement by anti-gunners to paint the Second Amendment as racist. The theory attempts to connect the 'Slave Patrols' and threats of slave rebellion as the ONLY reason for its existence. This is too much not to respond to.

I won't bore you with specific examples, as I do not believe that they justify any credit, however, if you Google you will find many very recent examples. Actually as shocking number of hits are returned.

To say that the Amendment was entirely focused on the preservation of slavery is a twisting of truth. They also attempt to tie the militia (and the States) into this perversion. Remember that the Continental (standing) Army was DISBANDED after the War. Perhaps the Militias served more function than 'enforce' slavery? But it makes a convenient argument for anti-gunners trying to discredit both the Militia and the 2nd Amendment.

Madison, who was charged with compiling the Bill of Rights (from thousands of requests), said that the Second Amendment was second in importance to only the First. The order is undeniably specific. The Second Amendment is the teeth of the Bill of Rights. Doubt his resolve?

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." (James Madison, The Federalist Papers #46 at 243-244)

What's worse is that many of these articles specifically tie the 10th Amendment (States' Rights) into their argument. So now States' Rights is racist too? Funny how the Left is all about States' Rights/Home Rule when they are not in power. Now that they hold the White House and Senate, suddenly, this concept is 'racist'? How convenient and hypocritical.

If you are not afraid of this rebranding, you should be -- How long is it until they attack the Constitution itself as being 'racist'?

Outrageous? I have seen postings and articles saying that the Founders themselves were racist and therefore the work they did is invalid! There was that whole "3/5 Compromise" (of course repealed) in the Constitution also.

Make no mistake -- there is a movement against the Constitution. Watch the media -- see how many "news" articles type it as 'constitution' (lower case 'c' -- like it is a generic concept, or one of many constitutions) instead of 'Constitution' as in THE U.S. Constitution -- the one and only -- the Supreme Law of the Land. These people are (supposedly) writers. They know the difference between capitalizing the C or not.

We must be vigilant now, more than ever. Please contact your legislators at all levels. I don't know who said it, but it is often repeated and true:

If the Second falls, so shall the rest...

Somebody asked me for details on my earlier blog post about travelling through CA that high capacity mags (normal mags to most people) are classified by California Penal Code (recently) as a "public nuisance" and subject to confiscation. These are changes for 2012.

Here are a couple of sources:

http://www.easylawlookup.com/_easylookup.blp?grp_reset=ON&data=PENAL&site=EASY&pgno=0&dlevel=0&location=78232&subject=&ret_sz=50&stype=Paragraphs&sdata_=PENAL&sexact=exactly&smode=all+of+these+words&sterm=+18010&GO=Search

and

http://www.easylawlookup.com/_easylookup.blp?grp_reset=ON&data=PENAL&site=EASY&pgno=0&dlevel=0&location=78232&subject=&ret_sz=50&stype=Paragraphs&sdata_=PENAL&sexact=exactly&smode=all+of+these+words&sterm=+18010&GO=Search

and

http://www.easylawlookup.com/_easylookup.blp?data=PENAL&site=EASY&location=78232&spon=EASY&stype=P&sterm=18010&smode=AND&sexact=ON&ru_sz=50&pgno=1219&par=26654&dlevel=0&subject=#par_26654

and you might be surprised what else is on the list:

California Penal Code Section 18010

Legal Research Home > California Laws > Penal Code > California Penal Code Section 18010

(a) The Attorney General, district attorney, or city
attorney may bring an action to enjoin the manufacture of,
importation of, keeping for sale of, offering or exposing for sale,
giving, lending, or possession of, any item that constitutes a
nuisance under any of the following provisions:
(1) Section 19290, relating to metal handgrenades.
(2) Section 20390, relating to an air gauge knife.
(3) Section 20490, relating to a belt buckle knife.
(4) Section 20590, relating to a cane sword.
(5) Section 20690, relating to a lipstick case knife.
(6) Section 20790, relating to a shobi-zue.
(7) Section 20990, relating to a writing pen knife.
(8) Section 21190, relating to a ballistic knife.
(9) Section 21890, relating to metal knuckles.
(10) Section 22090, relating to a nunchaku.
(11) Section 22290, relating to a leaded cane or an instrument or
weapon of the kind commonly known as a billy, blackjack, sandbag,
sandclub, sap, or slungshot.
(12) Section 22490, relating to a shuriken.
(13) Section 24390, relating to a camouflaging firearm container.
(14) Section 24490, relating to a cane gun.
(15) Section 24590, relating to a firearm not immediately
recognizable as a firearm.
(16) Section 24690, relating to an undetectable firearm.
(17) Section 24790, relating to a wallet gun.
(18) Section 30290, relating to flechette dart ammunition and to a
bullet with an explosive agent.
(19) Section 31590, relating to an unconventional pistol.
(20) Section 32390, relating to a large-capacity magazine.
(21) Section 32990, relating to a multiburst trigger activator.
(22) Section 33290, relating to a short-barreled rifle or a
short-barreled shotgun.
(23) Section 33690, relating to a zip gun.
(b) These weapons shall be subject to confiscation and summary
destruction whenever found within the state.
(c) These weapons shall be destroyed in the same manner described
in Section 18005, except that upon the certification of a judge or of
the district attorney that the ends of justice will be served
thereby, the weapon shall be preserved until the necessity for its
use ceases.

and here is what Section 32390 says (just a circular reference):

Except as provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section
32400) of this chapter and in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section
17700) of Division 2 of Title 2, any large-capacity magazine is a
nuisance and is subject to Section 18010.

First is high capacity, then 10 rounds, then 5 rounds and then 1! See bill below: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/11/Conn-Lawmaker-Pushes-Barney-Fife-Law-Limits-Guns-To-One-Round ...and then none.