New Jersey town will station armed cop in each of its nine schools 'to protect against this new evil'

Forget state-wide budget cuts, safety comes first for this town.

A New Jersey suburb is getting ready to station a full-time armed police officer in each of its nine schools come January 2.

Marlboro Township will reportedly become the first district in the U.S. to have guns in every school since the shooting of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14.

‘We’ve made a collective decision as a town that we need armed security in each of our schools,’ the town’s mayor, Jonathan Hornik, told the New York Post.

‘With this new evil, you can’t just sit there and hope that it doesn’t happen in your town. We must protect our kids,’ he said.

No other school districts in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut have decided to use guns to guard against an assault, according to officials.

‘If a district in New York state were to pursue that same solution — to bring armed police officers into the schools — we would support that decision,’ David Albert, spokesman for the New York School Boards Association, told the New York Post.

The New York Police Department oversees 5,000 unarmed safety agents and staffs each city school with at least one.

The NYP also sends out 350 armed cops a day to patrol and visit junior and senior high schools, among other private and public schools.