How The Media Responded To Great Mills High School Shooting

By Tom Knighton

The shooting at Great Mills High School on Tuesday won’t last long in the news cycle. There are a lot of reasons for that, up to and including the fact that there are currently no fatalities besides the shooter.

However, the media’s response to the attack has been telling–at least, when there was a response.

You see, while all the major outlets covered it, it was barely a blip on the radar. CNN, for example, seemed preoccupied with porn stars and President Trump. Who cares that a kid tried to kill his classmates or anything?

MSNBC, however, took a different tact. It seems the gun the shooter used was the topic of conversation there.

MSNBC host Chris Jansing and her guests focused their coverage of the Maryland high school shooting Tuesday on the shooter’s handgun in contrast to the Florida high school shooter’s AR-15 while discussing the school resource officer’s heroics in stopping the would-be killer.

Authorities say [the shooter] shot and injured two classmates at Great Mills High School in Maryland before school resource officer Blaine Gaskill responded to the scene and killed Rollins.

“[The shooter] had a handgun. He didn’t have, as you said, a semiautomatic weapon,” Jansing …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms