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Prompted by the Uvalde massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead in May, a North Carolina county is preparing for future active-shooter situations by supplying its schools' law enforcement officers with AR-15 rifles.

At the start of the fall semester in a couple weeks, each of the district's six schools will keep one of the firearms inside a safe, Madison County Sheriff Buddy Harwood, who helped lead the initiative, told NBC News.

The North Carolina school district and sheriff's office are working to bolster school security and prevent a repeat of the mistakes of the Uvalde tragedy, in which a gunman stormed a Texas elementary school and unleashed a murderous rampage without meeting armed police deterrence.

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The Uvalde school board voted unanimously Wednesday evening to fire district police chief Pete Arredondo over the botched police response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 students and two teachers dead.

Arredondo was not in attendance; his attorney, George Hyde, wrote in a 17-page press statement issued less than an hour before the meeting that the disgraced police chief has received death threats and therefore did not feel safe attending the meeting.

"Chief Arredondo will not participate in his own illegal and unconstitutional public lynching and respectfully requests the Board immediately reinstate him, with all backpay and benefits and close the complaint as unfounded," the statement said.

Hyde argued that firing Arredondo would be illegal because a letter from the district suspending him without pay was not an official "complaint" as required by law to consider termination.

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