In the “What Could Possibly Go Wrong” Department, a North Carolina county school system decided last week it will store AR-15s at each of its schools as a resource to be used if a person with ill intentions should enter the building, the Asheville Citizen Times reports.

The decision to turn the schools into a mini-armory was made with the local county sheriff, who will be responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the weapon and ammunition.  The guns will be stored in safes that will be placed in each school, and the safes will also contain breaching equipment.

“We were able to put an AR-15 rifle and safe in all of our schools in the county,” Sheriff Buddy Harwood said said. “We’ve also got breaching tools to go into those safes. We’ve got extra magazines with ammo in those safes.”

Harwood said the decision to keep guns in the schools were made after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed nineteen students and two teachers.  Harwood incorrectly claimed that the law enforcement officers who initially responded to the Uvalde shooter were out-gunned and could not get into the classroom.

“Those officers were in that building for so long, and that suspect was able to infiltrate that building and injure and kill so many kids,” Harwood said. “I just want to make sure my deputies are prepared in the event that happens.”

A review of the Uvalde shooting, however, found that officers had the opportunity to intercept the gunman before he entered the school; that some of the first officers on the scene were equipped with assault rifles and ballistic shields; and that the door to the classroom where the gunman was holed up and assassinating students and teachers was unlocked.