[Buckeye McFrog]

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

[rjsimmon]

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.

[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.

[savedbygrace]

A distinction without a difference.

[TexasGurl24]

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

[Responsibility2nd]

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?

[Enchante]

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.

[allendale]

Another example of how agitated wimps wilt quickly when confronted.

[Wonka]

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

[CGASMIA68]

? 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

[WayneS]

A shot Gaskill fired struck the Glock handgun in Rollins’ hand.

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

[WayneS]

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.

[Pikachu_Dad]

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 !!!

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

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

[G Larry]

SRO shot shooter in his gun hand.

Was that before, after, or the proximate cause of the perp’s weapon fire?

[DJ Taylor]

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

In other words, investigators said the single shot fired by Rollins that hit Jaelynn Willey in the head also hit Desmond Barnes in the thigh. Now, that's an interesting shot trajectory!

[digger48]

Does the Left always wonder why cops don’t just shoot the gun out of the bad guys hand?

[johncatl]

Yeah and I sent them a message about their headline. I asked them if the shooter would have killed himself if the good guy with a gun hadn't engaged him? Talk about weasel words.

The Fourth Estate has truly become a Fifth Column

[nonsporting]

Good guy with gun causes bad guy with gun to shoot himself.

I don’t see the problem with this.

The mere presence of an armed defender stops the killing of innocents. Teachers who have CCWs (or in states where none is required) should be allowed to carry their weapons ASAP.

Further, get rid of so-called gun-free zones which are nothing more than victim-disarmament zones. Such laws embolden those with criminal intent.

[al_c]

Either way ... he stopped him from killing anyone else.