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Did Law, Or Law Enforcement, Fail In Maine Mass Shooting?
The Gun Mag ^ | October 30, 2023 | Dave Workman

Posted on 10/30/2023 7:22:05 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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One of the most magnificent contemporary pieces was written by Jeffrey Snyder, A Nation of Cowards. While the piece is overtly about concealed carry, it is much broader than that.

Is your life worth protecting? If so, whose responsibility is it to protect it? If you believe that it is the police's, not only are you wrong -- since the courts universally rule that they have no legal obligation to do so -- but you face some difficult moral quandaries. How can you rightfully ask another human being to risk his life to protect yours, when you will assume no responsibility yourself?...One who values his life and takes seriously his responsibilities to his family and community will possess and cultivate the means of fighting back...He will never be content to rely solely on others for his safety, or to think he has done all that is possible by being aware of his surroundings and taking measures of avoidance.

The awareness about which Snyder wrote applies literally to every situation under the sun - not just crazy people or thieves in the night or bad dudes in an alley, but bureaucrats in lab coats and college faculty in sport coats.

Even in a gun-friendly state, Bad Things can happen. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

1 posted on 10/30/2023 7:22:05 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

And apparently there was no communication between New York (where the perp had spent two weeks in the mental hospital) and Maine.

Ain’t HIPPA great?

/s


2 posted on 10/30/2023 7:24:29 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: DoodleBob

Always does. The law enforcement always knew about every one of these murdering bass turds.


3 posted on 10/30/2023 7:24:51 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't be an attention ho. Country Music Stars aren't given Grammys by the retarded, "woke" left. )
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To: DoodleBob

Aside from that he was an evil person, we know very little about Robert Card. We know nothing of his history if he had a manifesto and any social media posts.


4 posted on 10/30/2023 7:25:31 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: DoodleBob

Both!


5 posted on 10/30/2023 7:26:09 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Watch Lists are a total scam.

Ain’t nobody watching nobody on any Watch Lists.

SWATing MAGA peeps though? Heck YA!


6 posted on 10/30/2023 7:29:39 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DoodleBob

Is it odd that modern day CCTV and surveillance cameras are hi-def, 1080 type stuff, yet the picture they show of they guy with the rifle is a grainy image that looks like it came from a convenience store from the 90s

That being said, IMHO, the guy with the rifle doesn’t look like the other picture/mugshot they’re showing.

One thing we’ll never see is the crime scene photos of the person they found.


7 posted on 10/30/2023 7:40:06 PM PDT by qaz123
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Speaking as an IT guy, a lot of ostensibly high def 1080 cameras actually have pretty crappy quality. Further, many DVRs use bad lossy compression so the results aren’t that great.

You have to get up into the 4K cameras to get consistently good quality. Additionally, there’s a lot of older systems still out there because not everyone wants to or can upgrade.


8 posted on 10/30/2023 7:44:32 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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The Rats will permit if not facilitate mass shootings until they can achieve their ultimate fantasies of super massive, jackbooted genocide.


9 posted on 10/30/2023 7:50:39 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Spktyr

Good point.

So, at this point do you trust anything the media or the powers that be, push to the public?

I do not.

I saw a story that showed what looked like a mugshot of the guy. To me, it doesn’t look like they guy holding the rifle.


10 posted on 10/30/2023 7:53:08 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: DoodleBob

Well, he was “previously known” to law enforcement, soooooooo it’s their fault.
The already existing laws if applied to him (maybe) would have delayed him somewhat.


11 posted on 10/30/2023 8:29:36 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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Well they had that yellow law and nobody did anything. That would’ve helped.


12 posted on 10/30/2023 8:32:46 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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Haven’t trusted them in decades. They lost me for good when I attended various events then looked at the media coverage and wondered if we’d been at the same event at all.


13 posted on 10/30/2023 8:36:31 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: qaz123

Same. The guy with the rifle looks middle eastern, at least he does not look like the crazy guy they call Robert Card.


14 posted on 10/30/2023 8:46:33 PM PDT by madison10 (He watching over Israel slumbers not, nor sleeps.)
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To: All

Did Law or Law Enforcement fail?

Or did ‘MK Ultra’ succeed?

/tinhat


15 posted on 10/30/2023 8:51:08 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: DoodleBob

Red / yellow flag laws do nothing when they are ignored by LEOs. We cannot expect any protection from “common sense gun laws” with all of these bozo commiecrats in charge. Constitutional carry is the only viable solution.


16 posted on 10/30/2023 10:06:23 PM PDT by 43north (America doesn't need an election. We need an exorcism.)
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.... LaChapelle suggested the mayhem could have been worse if Card had obtained the silencer because “survivors would not have been alerted by the sound of the gunfire and failed to seek cover.”

I’m no expert, but I think a suppressed AR in a bowling alley would nake sufficient noise to alert people. Still, I find this curious from the standpoint if him attacking a deaf bowling league.

17 posted on 10/30/2023 10:24:54 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

government intended they knew like most mass shootings


18 posted on 10/31/2023 1:45:06 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: PROCON

Ping!


19 posted on 10/31/2023 4:30:30 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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20 posted on 10/31/2023 6:20:58 AM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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