Shooting Investigation Underway at St. Mary's Co. High School

[PunkinPi]

Source: NBC News

A shooting investigation is underway at a high school in St. Mary's County, Maryland, the sheriff's office confirms.

The shooting happened Tuesday morning at Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland.

Multiple injuries have been reported.

The shooting comes four days before the national March for Our Lives, a rally for student safety inspired by last months massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida.



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Per CNN the situation is contained.

Here we go again...

[SummerSnow]

1. damn

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Joe Madison just mentioned.

[DonViejo]

3. Officials: Shooting at Great Mills HS in Maryland, incident contained

by STEPHEN PIMPO, ABC7 NewsTuesday, March 20th 2018

ST. MARY'S COUNTY, Md. (WJLA) - There was a shooting Tuesday morning at a high school in St. Mary's County, Maryland, and the incident has been contained, according to authorities.

The St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office says it happened at Great Mills High School and that police are on the scene. The sheriff's department says parents must pick up their students from the Leonardtown High School auditorium and should not go to Great Mills High School.

Link to tweet

A statement on the St. Mary's County Public Schools website reads:

"There has been a Shooting at Great Mills High School. The school is on lock down the event is contained, the Sheriff's office is on the scene additional information to follow."

No other information has been released at this time.

http://wjla.com/news/local/officials-shooting-at-great-mills-hs-in-maryland-incident-contained

[demmiblue]

4. What have we become?

[bucolic_frolic]

5. MAGA & So much winning

Rather than thoughts and prayers, I live in fears and tears

what is their real agenda? why be anti-abortion to maximize the number of kids if they're just cannon-fodder in their high schools?

[IronLionZion]

6. The youth these days are screwed in so many ways

we had shootings when I was in school but not nearly this often. This is insane and only getting worse over time, not better.

Maybe Maryland will have more representation in the marches this week as more people are inspired to take action. And the liberal Dems in this blue state might be pressured to pass some sensible reforms.

[CelticWinter]

7. WTF over

I have been a dem all my life, I live in BFE America and am a gun owner and never had I ever seen so much gun violence. When I was in school during the 70's the guys would drive their trucks to school, with their guns hanging in their gun racks, and never was there anything like this, I think the worse thing that happened was on senior day a guy dropped an m80 down the toilet and blew the pipes. I have never seen such a disrespect of life, what the hell are these people thinking? No one but no one has the right to take another person's life (unless you or your family is in a life threatening situation then I'm gonna shoot ur ass) but to go to a school and start shooting kids what the hell, and I don't want to hear I was bullied so I killed them, that's a cop out. Something is happening to our society that people feel the need to kill others whether at school, a show or where ever, and its got to stop. Have we become that desensitized that we have no value on human life?
Celtic

[AllyCat]

14. That isnt the new cop out. Bullying

Bulling is terrible and we must find a way to sensitize our youth to the plight of others. But no one should go shooting others.

[PatSeg]

16. I think anger, frustration, and mental instability

have always existed, but there wasn't access to weapons that could cause so much death so quickly. People with problems reacted in different ways, often self-destructive, but if they lashed out at another person(s), they didn't have high capacity magazines. Also many of them are undoubtedly copying the behavior of others they see on the news. Today's young people live in a gun culture, unlike previous generations. This is all new and inconceivable to my generation, it has become common to theirs.

There is no one easy answer, but clearly easy access to weapons of war certainly is a major contributor and is a good place to start. Then we can work on addressing bullying and psychological counseling.

[CelticWinter]

31. counseling

is great as long as the information is there, and yes bullying has been around forever. But as far as these kids being the only gun culture I grew up where everyone had guns, they still do. My grandfather always taught me you point a gun you better plan on using it and you better have a G_Damn good reason for using it, and I knew he meant business. I guess it was a different world you knew if you screwed up you were going to be held responsible for your actions, todays kid they don't think they have too. They think its ok to bully and no one is going to do crap about it. Then someone kills and poof their life is done, there is no going back, no I'm sorrys will take away the pain of what they have done. I don't know what the answer is but I guess we need to start before it gets to the "I have to take my kid to counseling because of being bullied" part is we teach them how to deal with bullies, and that anger isn't the answer. Maybe teaching our kids some self worth will work.
Celtic

[PatSeg]

33. It was a different kind of gun culture back then

People weren't stockpiling AR-15s and high capacity magazines, unless they were part of a criminal enterprise or planning a revolution. Guns were for hunting, protection, and target practice. I agree that for the most part, people treated guns with more respect and caution then today. For a small minority, today it has become almost a cult.

Also the NRA used to be a reputable organization that promoted safety and responsible gun ownership. They weren't owned by gun manufacturers.

There are so many things that brought us to where we are today and if we put them all together, we end up with a perfect storm. It isn't an easy problem, but we have to start somewhere. Doing nothing is not an option, which I think congress is finally figuring out.

[CelticWinter]

36. the NRA is nothing

like it use to be from what hubby says he quit them more than 20 yrs ago, too much big business!!! And I agree that something has to be done about this, we can outlaw them but then like prohibition they will go to the black market. Congress needs to start brain storming ideas, and if they cant come up with something they need to come to the people, talk to them, both left and right sides this is something we cant be divided on, we need to come up with a solution. We have to do this for our future generations or they will look at us with great disappointment as the biggest failures to walk the earth.
Celtic

[PatSeg]

37. Yes

There is no perfect answer, but doing nothing is not acceptable, as the problem is getting worse each day. We have the resources to bring about positive change, but apparently not the will. We won't eliminate all gun violence, just as we haven't reduced all car accidents through legislation and education.

I look back at my childhood and that of my children, and school was considered a "safe place". When my kids left for school, I might have worried about them not being prepared for a test or crossing a busy street, but I couldn't have imagined being afraid that they would be shot in their classrooms. We cannot allow this to become the norm. This is not the world I want for my grandchildren.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Just heard 3 were shot (1 fatal). nt

[ffr]

13. .

[NewDem17]

43. Fatal

Was the shooter.

SRO engaged shooter and stopped him before he could kill anyone.

[lapfog_1]

9. Faux is going to blame

the Parkland Students.... in 3... 2... 1...

[catsudon]

40. well

guess what, just now its gone from cnn's front page, at least or me and it's in big bold print on faux.

which means the narrative is going to be that of an instant response from an armed guard prevented what could be a massive tragedy.

[ffr]

10. Another school shooting. This time in Maryland. The march this Saturday just tripled in size.

Link to tweet

#NeverAgain
#MarchForOurLives

[HopeAgain]

11. Gunsplainers will hide for 2 weeks again

and then they will be out in force when the spotlight dims like a bunch of cockroaches.

[forgotmylogin]

12. Ironically, the increasing number of school shootings

has made the concept viable to any youth who is full of hate and has access to guns.

So the problem becomes "You might be a responsible gun owner, but are you sure your kid won't decide that he wants to shoot his classmates and do something rash as a non-responsible not-gun owner who lives in your house?"

[elleng]

15. Yes, the increasing number of school shootings AND

the publicity around them has made the concept viable to any youth who is full of hate, of whom there are a lot, and getting worse. Recall teen years?

[PatSeg]

19. Exactly

The hate, anger, and frustration have always been there, but easy access to weapons of war was not. Meanwhile, young disturbed people see this sort of thing on television on a regular basis.

[elleng]

25. Hi, PatSeg!

This is near my neck of the woods; daughter, in NJ, woke me with the news, this first day of spring (where we have rain now, and snow forecast @ 4 a.m!)

[PatSeg]

27. Hi Ellen!

We have snow everywhere right now and chance of snow showers tomorrow. The last couple of years, February was more like spring than March. If this snow doesn't go away, an Easter egg hunt will be very interesting.

[elleng]

30. It will be a REAL hunt!

[PatSeg]

32. Last year my twin grandsons

hunted for eggs in shorts and t-shirts. They might need snowsuits this year.

[elleng]

34. and mud boots for my 3 grands, 2 in NJ, one here in MD,

where rain forecast!

[BigmanPigman]

17. What timing....gun violence protest march on Sat.

March for our Lives is Sat. March 24th has 825+ nationwide protests planned. # ENOUGH! RESIST!

https://event.marchforourlives.com/event/march-our-lives-events/search/

[PunkinPi]

20. And just last week the students at Great Mills High School participated in the #NeverAgain walk-out

Link to tweet

[elleng]

29. Good to see this.

I guess we'll be learning somethings about today's shooter.

[Blue_Tires]

39. I dunno.. The shooting in Birmingham vanished off the news in like a day

[Tom Rinaldo]

18. How long before the Far Right claims this was a False Flag operation

timed to help mobilize support for anti-gun marches? I say hours, at most.

[catsudon]

41. it's the opposite

far right are touting this one as a hero with gun stopped the tragedy.

[rsdsharp]

21. Thank God American carnage

ended fourteen months ago, today.

[mainstreetonce]

22. I heard it mentioned that a school resource officer may have been involved

The pro gunners are going to argue that their solution stopped this from being as bad as Parkland. They should tell that to the family of the student who is in critical condition.

[B2G]

26. It likely did.

The SRO shot the shooter and stopped him.

That's just a fact.

[bluestarone]

42. NOT a fact yet per CNN! Should wait till investigation is over maybe?

As soon as the gunfire began, Gaskill rushed to the scene. He fired a round at the shooter, who also fired a round at the same time, Cameron said.
It's not yet clear whether the shooter, Austin Wyatt Rollins, was felled by the officer's bullet or killed himself. (They want to make this A GOOD GUY WITH GUN KILLS BAD GUY WITH GUN) I will wait and see before i say this! https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/20/us/maryland-school-shooting-resource-officer-response-trnd/index.html

[OrlandoDem1]

28. You mean the person whos trained to act?

And by training I don’t mean someone who’s paid for a 130 gun course.

[Bengus81]

23. Quick NRA....blame those "crisis actors" from Florida for keeping this ginned up..........

5...4...3...2...

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24. ...

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[NastyRiffraff]

35. Three critically injured

All three are students at the school, including the shooter who was also injured.

Washington Post

[nitpicker]

38. WTOP reporting the shooter died

In a shootout with the school resource officer.

At last report, the female student was in critical condition, the other male student in stable condition.

Faux 5 in DC was running updates on the situation all morning.