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.'
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Two many inconsistent reporting in that link. Registered sex offender, arrested on numerous occassions, arrested for child pornography but the table list he’s worth $1.9m driving a Subaru (right), no arrest, firearms instructor. All of which are contradictory.
They love their guns...and pot.
….and every other 10 posts someone throws in “Somali”.
FReeper Vermont Lt posted about having a call center there a while back. I trust actual empirical evidence.
Just like every left wing kook salivates when a tragedy with a gun happens and prays that it’s a MAGA guy, it seems our side also gets a touch of Pavlov.
Many people are dead and more are injured. The gunman is on the loose. I know the left doesn’t sleep and is dancing at the morgue to make a political point. Can we at least pray first and maybe get a fact or two straight?
And you just can't throw someone into a mental hospital, they have to exhibit symptoms that they are a danger to others or themselves.
Back in the 80's a close friend's brother was diagnosed as schizophrenic. He was a Vietnam vet, graduate of Univ. of Mich. and a successful executive recruiter. He eventually lost his wife, lost his house and lost his business. Throughout the summer he was living on a beach in northern Michigan while my friend tried to get him institutionalized.
The local judge, who was a friend of the family, couldn't do anything until fall came, threatening winter, that the judge could deem the brother a danger to himself due to the weather.
So he was placed in the state mental hospital for several weeks and put on drugs that stabilized him and he was released.
Those drugs are awful, they turn the patient into a zombie. While under the watchful eye of a social worker, the only j0bs he held was a grocery packer at a local market then a phone receptionist for a friend who had a real estate business. But like you said, if they stop taking their meds, which they are prone to, the cycle is repeated.
I live outside of Detroit as does my friend. one Thursday I received a phone call at work from the brother who said he was driving down to Detroit because he had an appointment with the French embassy the next day and needed a place to spend the night.
I said sure then immediately called my friend who said he would come to my house that evening. Sure enough, the brother showed up and the three of had pizza. The next morning I left work work leaving the brother at my place and when I got home from work, the brother was gone. Headed back up north I suspect.
When he was first developing the disease, which no one was aware of, he had visions of building a manufacturing business up north and was able to convince a couple of friends into investing in it. It never came to pass and he was never able to repay the monies he had borrowed.
Schizophrenia is a horrible disease, not only for the individual but their families and friends they are associated with.
Same here. Intelligent people can recognize sarcasm without having it labeled for them like they are third graders lip reading their way through the Weekly Reader.
I wonder...
Just how many of those shot in Maine had a gun handy to return fire?
Junner was ok ‘til he just TOUCHED that nasty looking gun!
Piker...
Piker...
You’ve posted a total of 53 threads and 211,289 replies.
One of the good ones?
I wouldn’t brag about that here.
I thought it was illegal for the mental milkshakes and criminal to own firearms???
He is a Pedo
Sex offender
Wife beater
Was in a mental health hospital
Psychotic
Yet he was allowed to keep firearms?????
Here is an idea: how about we enforce our gun laws on the book before we cancel the 2nd amendment???
When will they ‘find’ the MAGA hat that they planted.
Well, it serves them right for oppressing Palestinians. So nyaaah. If you oppress somebody you should LET them butcher you./SARC
Exactly - mentally ill enough to be sectioned but not enough to be institutionalized - despite the clear threats of deadly violence....
pistol on hip while bowling, drinking at a bar …. Very very hard to react vs rifle …. Might be lucky to kill the perp while he was putting in the next magazine, but that’s a pretty tight window.
116 replies and, after a search, not one “FF”, “False” or “Flag”.
If anybody is wondering why those skeptical of anything the mockingbird MSM fake noose puts out are quiet these days, with WW3 looming, and the DSC seemingly out of control...
Not a big frequenter of bowling allies, but I would guess that most or all are licensed to serve beer.
Seen it.
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