The NRA finally found a school shooting it wants to talk about

By Taylor Dolven Mar 20, 2018

Usually, the National Rifle Association is silent after school shootings. But not this time.

Just hours after the gunman, 17-year-old student Austin Wyatt Rollins, died after exchanging gunfire with a school resource officer in a Maryland high school, the NRA is treating the incident as a slam dunk for its agenda. The group is now using the shooting to show why it’s better to have more “good guys with guns” in schools.

While details are still unclear, the school resource officer stopped a shooting in progress at Great Mills High School in St. Mary's County, Maryland, on Tuesday morning. The St. Mary's County Sheriff's Department, however, wouldn't confirm if the officer's bullet hit Rollins; they fired "simultaneously," a spokesman said.

The gunman had shot and critically injured a female student, with whom he had a relationship, and wounded another male student, according to the sheriff's department.

Despite the lack of clarity, the NRA didn't take long to hold the school resource officer's actions up as a victory over the “anti-gun, anti-freedom narrative.”

“Thankfully, an armed school resource officer stopped the attack by engaging with the shooter,” said NRA-TV host Grant Stinchfield. “This story is proof, when something doesn’t fit their anti-gun, anti-freedom narrative the lying news media simply doesn’t cover it.” The shooting has been covered by all the major cable news networks.

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