Dive Brief:

• Teachers and administrators in Gainesville, Ga., have met to discuss arming their school resource officers with semi-automatic assault rifles. 
• The proposal emerged after last year's shootings in Newtown, Conn., and resurfaced because of a recent security threat at a local school.
• The plan calls for one semi-automatic rifle to be stored in a safe at three schools, where the school resource officer would be the only one to have access to the weapon.

​Dive Insight:

This meeting was a school-level gathering for teachers and others to ask questions about the plan. Two more such meetings are to be held this month at each of the schools that would receive the weapons. Then, the plan will move to the school board for a vote.