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Armed good guy didn’t kill school shooter
nypost ^ | 03/27/2018 | Tamar Lapin

Posted on 03/27/2018 12:35:17 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The Maryland high school student who fatally shot his ex-girlfriend and injured another student also killed himself, authorities said.

Austin Rollins, 17, shot himself in the head when he was confronted by school resource officer Blaine Gaskill during the March 20 school shooting, the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.

Gaskill had arrived within a minute of Rollins shooting 16-year-old Jaelynn Willey in a hallway at Great Mills High School. A shot Gaskill fired struck the Glock handgun in Rollins’ hand.

Rollins held the gun, which Gaskill had ordered him to drop, to his head, student witnesses told WJLA.

Gaskill was not injured.

The teen girl was left brain-dead and taken off life support two days after the attack.

Desmond Barnes, a 14-year-old victim, was shot in his right thigh in the same hallway as Willey.

“I was just shot at my school,” he said in a 911 call released Monday, where he had to repeat himself to the dispatcher, saying again, “I was just shot at my school.”

Investigators said the single shot fired by Rollins hit both Willey and Barnes.

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KEYWORDS: armed; guns; school; shooter
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1 posted on 03/27/2018 12:35:17 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Investigators said the single shot fired by Rollins hit both Willey and Barnes.

Banning bump stocks and high capacity magazines will certainly prevent THAT! /sarc


2 posted on 03/27/2018 12:36:42 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Austin Rollins, 17, shot himself in the head when he was confronted by school resource officer Blaine Gaskill

Irrelevant. Had Mr. Gaskill not confronted Rollins, the shooting would most likely have continued.

3 posted on 03/27/2018 12:37:08 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Symantics.
Good guy with gun confronts bad guy with gun.
Bad guy takes himself out instead of giving the Good Guy (who, by the way, offered the bad guy a chance to live) the opportunity.

So yes, NYT, the Good Guy with a Gun DID stop this.


4 posted on 03/27/2018 12:37:45 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A distinction without a difference.


5 posted on 03/27/2018 12:38:14 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: SparkyBass

Splellink. ungh.


6 posted on 03/27/2018 12:38:44 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The media spin is disgusting. He shot himself BECAUSE he was confronted by an armed good guy.


7 posted on 03/27/2018 12:38:46 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: SparkyBass
Symantics. Good guy with gun confronts bad guy with gun. Bad guy takes himself out instead of giving the Good Guy (who, by the way, offered the bad guy a chance to live) the opportunity. So yes, NYT, the Good Guy with a Gun DID stop this.

YEP

8 posted on 03/27/2018 12:39:55 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The good guy DID shot the shooter. May not have killem him, but so what? He stopped him.

Can you imagine the carnage if there was no officer with a gun on campus?


9 posted on 03/27/2018 12:40:05 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Stoopid stoopid headline..... obviously the shootings could have continued had the officer not confronted the shooter. The “intervention” of the “armed good guy” was every bit as crucial whether or not the good guy fired the shot.


10 posted on 03/27/2018 12:40:09 PM PDT by Enchante (FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another example of how agitated wimps wilt quickly when confronted.


11 posted on 03/27/2018 12:40:22 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Close enough for me. He would not have suicided if he had not been threatened.


12 posted on 03/27/2018 12:40:25 PM PDT by Wonka
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? for the Hog Wild Useles Idiots .
Would he have shot himself in the head if that cop didnt have a bead on him ?

Kinda doubt it


13 posted on 03/27/2018 12:40:44 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: ChicagoConservative27
A shot Gaskill fired struck the Glock handgun in Rollins’ hand.

Before or after Rollins "shot himself in the head"?

14 posted on 03/27/2018 12:41:42 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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The teen girl was left brain-dead and taken off life support two days after the attack.

That is a shame. I had not heard this.

15 posted on 03/27/2018 12:42:18 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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It’s a double win. The officer will not have the guilt of having shot a kid no matter how badly he needed to be put down and the kid will not get into Heaven because he offed himself.


16 posted on 03/27/2018 12:42:21 PM PDT by VietVet876
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Wait, seriously ?!? 😒 The good guy shot and hit the gunmans gun ?!? “A shot Gaskill fired struck the Glock handgun in Rollins’ hand.” That must have been some (lucky) shot !!!
17 posted on 03/27/2018 12:42:27 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The most important fact: Rollins did not harm anyone else after he was confronted by the officer.


18 posted on 03/27/2018 12:44:10 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: CGASMIA68

The Resources officer pursued, confronted, and fired. Everything else is irrelevant. He did his job, he protected the lives around him, and knowingly put his life in jeopardy for the benefit of others.

Well done.


19 posted on 03/27/2018 12:44:18 PM PDT by Rustybucket
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Had Mr. Gaskill not confronted Rollins, the shooting would most likely have continued.

Exactly right. A good-guy with a gun doesn't necessarily have to actually shoot the bad-guy to stop him. Often times, just showing up and presenting the willingness and capability to use deadly force is enough to end it.
20 posted on 03/27/2018 12:46:11 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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