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A highschool in South Dakota has eliminated unloaded weapons from a Nationwide Guard Veterans Day show and recruitment stand over the “potential to trigger a panic.”
On Thursday, the Nationwide Guard hosted a recruiting sales space throughout lunch durations for college students at Fast Metropolis Central Excessive Faculty (RCAS). Unloaded firearms belonging to the Nationwide Guard had been additionally on faculty grounds on the sales space.
In an announcement to Fox Information Digital, RCAS Superintendent Nicole Swigart mentioned that college students had been allowed to carry and take photos of the unloaded weapons that had been part of the show.
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Using even unloaded firearms shouldn’t be permitted on faculty property, in keeping with an announcement from the Fast Metropolis Space Colleges in South Dakota. (Google Maps)
Swigar mentioned that the photographs, which didn’t include any details about the Nationwide Guard, started to flow into on-line of scholars “holding assault rifles.”
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“RCAS could be very involved that these photos have the potential to trigger a panic,” Swigart mentioned.
Members of the Military Nationwide Guard salute whereas standing in formation. (U.S. Military Nationwide Guard photograph by Spc. Matthew A. Foster/File)
The highschool superintendent mentioned that state legislation prevents firearms on faculty property, apart from by legislation enforcement.
“Since studying that this occurred, I’ve been involved with the college management, legislation enforcement, and Nationwide Guard leaders,” Swigart mentioned. “We’re all in settlement that this was not one thing we really feel is appropriate in a college setting.”
The Nationwide Guard didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a breaking information author for Fox Information Digital and Fox Enterprise.
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