Posted on 10/25/2023 9:00:23 PM PDT by chickenlips
-At least 22 people have been shot dead in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, and 50-60 people injured at three different locations
-Robert Card, a 40-year-old Army reservist and firearms instructor from Bowdoin, is named by police as 'a person of interest': his empty car has been found
-They have issued a photo of the suspect entering Sparetime bowling alley at 7:15pm; they were also called to a bar and a Walmart distribution center
A massive manhunt is underway in Maine for an Army reserve firearms instructor who was sectioned this summer for mental health reasons, and is suspected of shooting dead 22 people on Wednesday night at multiple sites in Lewiston.
Robert Card, 40, from Bowdoin, Maine, was named by Maine state police as the a 'person of interest' in the shootings at a bowling alley, restaurant and Walmart distribution center.
He was sectioned after saying he was hearing voices, and threatening to shoot up his National Guard base in Saco, Maine.
Card was armed with an AR 15-style rifle with laser optics when he burst into the bowling alley at 7:15pm to begin his rampage.
He was driving a 2013 white Subaru: Eric Samson, sheriff of Androscoggin County, announced at 11:20pm that law enforcement officers have found the vehicle in Lisbon, about seven miles southeast of Lewiston - but Card was not inside.
Mike Sauschuck, a law enforcement spokesperson in Lewiston, said Card 'is considered armed and dangerous.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Or brain altering drugs starting in childhood.
Perp is psychotic (”hearing voices”) and was a catch and release at mental health facility for about two weeks this summer.
I smell a massive wrongful death lawsuit against some “mental health professionals”
Card is a registered sex offender, not legal for him to own a firearm. Not likely to be a current “firearms instructor”!
Also one of his ex’s has a restraining order against him.
Voted for Bush and Obama, according to family.
https://www.caclubindia.com/wealth/maine-mass-shooting/
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
I have a family member who’s an FBI agent on their way to Lewiston right now....
With Johnson now running the House, we don’t need to worry about losing our rights. If the Dems want to have a debate about gun control, they’re welcome to do so, perhaps starting with them explaining how Israeli gun control created defenseless civilians how were executed like insects by their mortal enemies.
“We knew about him, but eff you. Give up your guns like the Israelis next to Gaza did.”
Biden/Obama/ValJar command center says “ great job for God and country” the check is in the mail.
Is there much of a difference between Bush and Obama?
Much easier to find people in the woods these days with every podunk PDs having thermal outfitted drones, etc. You can defeat FLIR but you have to have special gear and be stationary. All that said, nothing’s perfect.
What do you think?
I’d say the only significant difference is Obungo put the LGBT and domestic Marxist revolutions into overdrive.
“He was sectioned after saying he was hearing voices, and threatening to shoot up his National Guard base in Saco, Maine.”
And yet, this was not enough to put him in a mental hospital as an in patient.
Only the police and military should have guns.
Well this ought to crank up Hogg and pals. Grrrrrr! Meanwhile 14 million ARs didn’t do anything. ODs last year were, IIRC, 100,000+ and meh!
We don’t “section” here. That must be from the Daily Mail or other UK site. Section something of the Mental Health act
I saw a movie once where only the police and military had guns, it was called "Schindler's List".
The laws have been constructed such that if their psychotic symptomology ends while institionalized, they are released on medications...the patients stops taking the meds and the symptoms reoccur. Hence the descriptive term among staff at those institutions as the patient being a “frequent flyer”...
The psychiatrists and the legal officials and the public has to realize that chronic relapsers are in a different class of disease process and may need to be institutionalized for much longer periods...there need to be safeguards against political oppression using faked mental disease charges, however.
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