NEW SHOOTING, BUT HANDLED WELL – AT 11:54 A.M. ET:  We've been following a new school shooting, this time in Maryland.  Fortunately, the school was administered by sane officials who employed an armed officer.  From Fox: 

A gunman who shot and wounded two students at Great Mills High School in Maryland was killed Tuesday after engaging an armed school resource officer, an official said.

The shooter was the only fatality. A female student was critically injured and a male student was also shot but is in stable condition at a hospital, authorities said.

"Our school resource officer was alerted to the event. he pursued the shooter, engaged the shooter, fired a round at the shooter," St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim Cameron said. "The shooter fired a round as well. In the hours and days to come, we'll be able to determine if our school resource officer's round struck the shooter."

The resource officer, who wasn't immediately identified, was not injured. Cameron said the gunman died after being transported to a local hospital.

COMMENT:  It is possible, of course, that the shooter committed suicide, but, if that's the case, he did it only after being challenged by the school officer.

Obviously, we're pained and outraged that two students were wounded.  But the presence of an armed, trained officer clearly prevented what could have been a much larger tragedy. 

Hardening schools, protecting students, is the immediate answer to this horror.  It won't solve the problem of deranged shooters, but it can prevent them from succeeding.  However, try telling that to the ideological liberals, who only know "gun control," whatever that means this week.

March 20,  2018