Posted March 21, 2018 5:00 pm by Comments

By Patrick Richardson

Surprising no one at all, Think Progress is being more than a little misleading on the latest school shooting.

What school shooting, you may ask? Where’s the wall-to-wall coverage?

Well, yes, there was one Tuesday morning, but since only one person, the shooter, was killed, the networks apparently didn’t think it was worth much their time.

What’s clear is that, Tuesday morning, a young man went to his school in Great Mills, Maryland with a loaded handgun, shot and wounded a girl with whom he’d had a previous relationship, and wounded another student before an armed school resource officer (SRO) engaged and eliminated the threat.

These facts are not in dispute.

But according to Think Progress, the National Rifle Association is making hay “before the facts are in.”

The NRA got ahead of the facts on Tuesday, attempting to spin a deadly shooting at Great Mills High School in St. Mary’s County, Maryland as an example of why militarizing schools is a good thing.

Of course, the NRA did no such thing. What the NRA did say was that “It’s clear that (the) officer saved lives.” It then pointed out how the mainstream media devoted little time to this fact, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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