This month, a remote Idaho school district, to which it takes law enforcement officers approximately 45 minutes to travel, has purchased firearms and trained six staff members to use them in the event of a school shooting, the Associated Press reports.

According to the AP, limited funds have prevented the Garden Valley School District from hiring police officers to patrol the district’s single school building, where all 300 students in the district are taught. “I hope we never have to use them,” school board member Alan Ward said. “But in the event something did happen, we wanted to be prepared.”

“You just constantly are hearing about school invasions and we just simply do not want to have that occur in our district,” Ward told KBOI. But, according to the AP, the Idaho Department of Education reports that less than 10 “weapon-related” incidents—including guns, knives, and explosives—have been reported in the past two years.

“Garden Valley is in a unique circumstance,” Boise County Sheriff Ben Roeber told Idaho Education News. “Where they are located geographically, we don’t have the staffing size to where we can guarantee safety.”

The school board did not disclose how many or what type of firearms were purchased or where they would be stored, the AP reports. Ward estimated that the school spent around $3,500 on ammunition and training. The rest was donated by the community.

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