A Virginia mom was charged Friday after telling Page County school board members who’d been discussing mask policies that she would bring loaded guns to her children’s school.
“I will bring every single gun loaded and ready,” Amelia Ruffner King, 42, said Thursday in remarks at a Page County Public Schools Board meeting.
King was charged Friday with making an oral threat while on school property, Luray police said in a social media post.
She was released on a $5,000 bond, police said.
The Page County school board convened Thursday to discuss COVID-19 mitigation strategies in the wake of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s order effectively lifting the school mask mandate. Youngkin issued an executive order on his first day in office that says parents can choose whether their child must wear a mask in school.
Schools across the state have been discussing…
