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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.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
The way I see it, the ship sailed on preventing mass shootings in the US with either Sandy Hook or Columbine. The shock of children being butchered gave way to The Discourse (TM) and now a large proportion of the population just accept shootings as a fact of life like car crashes.
Add to that the sheer number of guns in the US, as well as the gun-related brain rot in the general population, you'd need a campaign of concerted government action that would make the war against drugs look like child's play.
Fucking evergreen
There were no initial signs of terrorism.
The not-terrorism/terrorism scale really is 
. 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.
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.
Cis guy concerned about trans mass shooter becomes a mass shooter. Ok.
I find it hard to understand how someone can shoot about 100 people but police still haven't been to catch him yet. Maybe the vast emptiness of the suburban hellscape that makes it possible.
they taking cover behind elementary school children.
pigs don't protect and serve
they just deflect and swerve
and then project with nerve
Having lived in Lewiston a long time, I can tell you the cops there are all totally incompetent. They're not even murderous psychos that big city police forces hire. Just total dumbasses riding around eating donuts 50 hours a week. The police station is like a five minute drive from where this guy started shooting.
If you drive twenty minutes in any direction it's all woods and camps though. A helicopter can't do shit, there's no surveillance cameras, and very few people to call in tips.
Cops have to drive 10 minutes to leave a neighborhood at the only exit while a criminal can jump over some fences and flee the neighborhood in like 45 seconds
threats to shoot up the National Guard Base
Schemengees Bar & Grille
if only his GPS didn't malfunction
Yea clearly sane enough to realize people at the base might shoot back so went with youth league night at a local bowling alley.
At least we can take solace in the fact absolutely nothing will be done about this and the exact same thing could happen again next week.
This is a very active and dynamic situation. The image of at least one active killer has been released by police. He is armed with a tactical rifle.
Oh fuck, the shooter is still at large? I can easily imagine this getting worse as people go out to try and find the shooter.
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?
none of those circumstances are beyond America's baseline level of not giving a shit about people
looks like another white guy?
A lone wolf incident then. No radicalization or extremist ideology this time around.
And he was known to the authorities, but they declared him a good fella and let him go
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?
On this website, probably
Almost like you shouldn't let people with genocidal ideologies have guns
firearms instructor
army reservist
The mythical "good guy with a gun" to fashoids, checks all the boxes and yet here he is shooting people in the back at a youth bowling league.
This is just going to keep happening over and over and over again. It's always a tragedy but never a surprise.
Let me guess, mental illness?
Also, only a matter of time until we learn they were on the FBI’s radar
Preliminary reporting seems to suggest that it might actually be a mental illness thing. They reported to superiors that they were hearing voices and were discharged without any restriction on owning high caliber firearms.
How many 9/11s is this so I can understand the scale?
Well under 1. In fact, this article is anti-semitic for distracting the world from Israel's ongoing security issues.
What a terrible cold way to look at this tragedy. Anyway by my math using state populations it's about 1/10th of a 9/11.
Edit: if you use cities as the denominator, its about four 9/11s.
Now we wait for more ChatGPT generated thoughts and prayers and the usual "there is just no way to solve this"
Don't forget about all the posts about how this is actually Hamas
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
According to the article he's actually 40 years old and was recently admitted to a mental health facility for two weeks.
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 :/
