At least 22 dead and 60 shot in mass shooting Lewiston, Maine
At least 22 dead and 60 shot in mass shooting Lewiston, Maine
The latest news and live updates on the active shooting situation in Lewiston, Maine.
The suspect is believed to be Robert Card, a 20-year US Army veteran from Bowdoin Center, Maine.
(according to Telegrams so take with grain of salt)
EDIT: Name confirmed by news.
According to law enforcement, CARD recently reported mental health issues to include hearing voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard Base in Saco, ME.
Dudes twitter was shared on reddit, of course he was a Republican and also a transphobe. But then i refreshed and the account was "suspended."
https://twitter.com/RobertC20041800/with_replies?t=F8McyP5jkWQqNIzeeIVFzQ&s=09
totally no motive at all.
although one tweet he liked was one from Ravens QB Lamar Jackson about mental health awareness. so much for that.
it’s often pointed out that a lot of these guys have npd, which, yeah I buy that, but if npd was the driving factor this would be happening everywhere on earth, or at least everywhere with a lot of guns. What America also has is the diseased atmosphere of a crumbling, self-aggrandizing racist superpower where various segments of society are scapegoated for it crumbling, and you don’t get that in the news or in Psychology Today.
You can’t convince me this isn’t some strategy of tension shit. Like other mass shootings are obviously just pissed of crackers or incels who the police refuse to investigate despite being reported.
But this. This guy was mentally ill but somehow still allowed to be trained with military weapons and train other soldiers. And he was released without being fired, reportedly. And this shooting lasted several hours, and now he’s missing?
Gun laws in Maine, they seem pretty lax. https://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/state-gun-laws/maine/
Open carry allowed with no permit, and it's a "castle doctrine" state.
Where's all the good people with guns?
This is just going to keep happening over and over and over again. It's always a tragedy but never a surprise.
Gotta admit, it’s the first time I’ve heard of that place since I would listen to this song as a child. The way Fred says “Lewiston Maine” has been deeply wired my neurons and I feel like I just got a nu metal activation code.
Edit: i had forgotten how dog shit this song is, I apologize
having lived in rural maine, yes the nature was beautiful but socially it was pretty depressing and impoverished, but not a lot happens there so an 80-person mass shooting - I'm both really surprised and not very surprised at the same time :/
An ex-soldier with known mental health issues. But of course he was legal to own a gun.
Do you hear of the daily mass shootings in other (non-war) countries? No? Maybe there is a reason to this.
Makes me think of the Gabriel Wortman shootings in Nova Scotia, middle-aged white guy with a history of violent behavior starts going around shooting people and due to rcmp incompetence (or something more sinister) leads to him being on the run for most of a day while he continues his rampage across Nova Scotia. Wortman wasn't in the military but he did have an obsession with cops and he used his fake cruiser & uniform in his rampage. He was on the run overnight and into the next day before he was found, and that was more luck than police work.
The governor and police announced the toll of 18 dead and 13 wounded this morning. While still incredibly upsetting, it isn't as bad as earlier reports suggest.
. The article was mentioning that this one event is close to being over the total number of murders in the state for all of 2022.
