(CNN)The school shooting was over in seconds. But it could have dragged on longer and proven deadlier were it not for the rapid response of a school resource officer.

Deputy Blaine Gaskill (left), seen here in a photo taken in 2012 and posted on the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page.

As soon as the gunfire began, Gaskill rushed to the scene. He fired a round at the shooter, who also fired a round at the same time, Cameron said.

It’s not yet clear whether the shooter, Austin Wyatt Rollins, was felled by the officer’s bullet or killed himself.

“DFC [Deputy First Class] Gaskill fired at the shooter … almost simultaneously as the shooter fired,” Cameron said. “This is something we train, practice and in reality, hope would never come to fruition. This is our worst nightmare.”

Gov. Larry Hogan called Gaskill “a very capable school resource officer who also happened to be a SWAT team member.”

“This is a tough guy who apparently closed in very quickly and took the right kind of action,” he said. “And while I think it’s still tragic, he may have saved other people’s lives.”

Over in seconds

The incident began in a school hallway at 7:55 a.m., just before classes started. Authorities say Austin, armed with a handgun, shot a female student, with whom he had a prior relationship, and another male student.

Gaskill responded to the scene in less than a minute, the sheriff said.

Cameron said the entire incident took less than a minute, possibly seconds.

The 16-year-old female student is in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, and the 14-year-old male student who was shot is in stable condition.

Gaskill was unharmed.

“He’s doing well and we’re going to do everything to support and promote him and his well-being,” Cameron said.

Playing to a narrative

Gaskill’s actions were praised, rightly, across social media. But some — most notably, the NRA — held him up as an example of the “good guy with a gun” theory. The theory goes, that bad guys will always find a way to circumvent whatever gun laws are in place. And “to stop a bad guy with a gun,” as NRA head Wayne Lapierre said, “it takes a good guy with a gun.”

“This [Great Mills High School] armed school resource officer, you’re not hearing anyone in #MSM talk about it because it disrupts their narrative,” NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch said in one of several tweets Tuesday. (MSM is short for mainstream media.)

So far, this year, there have already been 17 school shootings where someone was hurt or killed.

There has been, on average, 1 school shooting every week this year

In the Parkland shooting, school resource deputy Scot Peterson never entered the building after taking a position outside. He resigned after he was suspended without pay for his inaction.

“Had our resource officer taken action immediately, the result of the Stoneman Douglas Valentine’s Day Massacre would have been different,” Parkland student Kai Koerber told CNN.

“We might not have had to walk over the bodies of our classmates, once lovely and wonderful people, as we were led away from murderous tragedy.”

Speaking to reporters, Dr. James Scott Smith, the superintendent of St. Mary’s County’s public schools, put the senselessness of it all in perspective.

“It looks as though the SRO [school resource officer] did exactly what the SRO is trained to do, and yet we still have a tragic loss of life,” he said. “We still have somebody in critical condition. And we have students at the school and staff at the school impacted.”

CNN’s Diane Gallagher contributed to this report.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/20/us/maryland-school-shooting-resource-officer-response-trnd/index.html

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Like that time Jake Tapper had to remind his own network not to praise North Korean leadership to get at Trump.

But the network too often veers into activist territory. Be it in the form of White House correspondent Jim Acosta who likes to shout pointed clown questions at Trump that paint him as a racist or a puppet, or supporting the idea that kids should be allowed to vote to help push gun control.

Their latest venture into activist territory comes with attempting to enrage people into the “NRA controls politics” narrative by giving away the names of politicians (as CNN notes, all Republicans) who voted against an “assault weapons” ban, alongside their NRA rating.

This is more than just reporting facts, this is blatant activism. By posting NRA grades alongside Republican names, CNN knows they’re carrying on the myth that Republicans are paid shills with no concern for people, and every concern for the money in their pocket. This is perfect outrage bait, and the left is only too willing to bite the hook.

But to prove it’s activism, here are some facts that CNN has failed to mention in their long tired history.

In terms of money spent in politics, the NRA is far from the largest spender, and Republicans are far from the largest recipient as Ben Shapiro details over at the Daily Wire.

According to the National Institute for Labor Relations Research, labor unions spent $1.713 billion on political activities and lobbying for the 2016 election cycle alone. That’s not unusual: they also spent $2.2 billion on political activities in 2008 and 2010, and $1.69 billion in 2012.

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading abortion mill, spent $33.9 million on outside spending from the 2012 through 2016 election cycles, according to OpenSecrets. EMILY’s List, another abortion group, spent $33.2 million on politics in 2016. NextGen Climate Action, a leftist group pushing climate change legislation, spent $22.9 million.

Okay, now compare that to the amount that the NRA has spent:

On the first question, between 1998 and 2016, the NRA spent approximately $13 million on all candidates, parties, and leadership political action committees, according to the Left’s favorite fact-checker, Politifact. The NRA also spends money on “outside expenditures,” meaning ads they cut themselves, for example, in the amount of $144.3 million, plus another $45.9 million on lobbying. That’s a grand total of $203.2 million on political activities over 18 years, or approximately $22.6 million per 2-year election cycle. The NRA spends far more in presidential years than non-presidential years — according to OpenSecrets, the NRA spent some $54.4 million in 2016 on politics.

Compared to the amount of money given to the left from organizations, the NRA is pretty tame. Meanwhile the left and abortion mills that exchange money with one another exclusively kill far more people (specifically children) than any gun rights organization can manage. By the way, the NRA has so far killed zero people. Over the course of Planned Parenthood’s history, they’ve killed 7 million.

Interestingly, these facts don’t make it on CNN whenever a leftist politicians begins throwing hissy fits over unions or abortion rights.

CNN needs to drop the facade, and admit that it’s a leftist propaganda channel.

Source: https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/02/21/cnn-engages-pure-unadulterated-activism-push-gun-control/

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