CNN is reporting yet another school shooting, and that the shooter is dead – shot by the school resource officer:
One person is dead after an armed student shot two other students at Great Mills High School in Maryland on Tuesday morning, according to St. Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron.
Cameron said the school resource officer engaged the shooter and ended the threat, and the shooter was pronounced dead. A male student is in stable condition and a female student is in critical condition, he said.
The school resource officer fired a round at the shooter, and the shooter fired a round as well, but the officer was not injured.
I wonder how many 2nd Amendment absolutists will celebrate the death of the shooter as proof that having more guns works. To my mind, the fact that a single shot was fired is proof positive of the failure of having guns out there, readily available. Shots were fired, students endangered and terrorized – this is not the behavior of a good society. And what if the school resource officer had been the first down?
