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Stephen King on Maine mass shooting: ‘Stop electing apologists for murder’
The Hill ^ | 10/26/2023 | MIRANDA NAZZARO

Posted on 10/26/2023 8:34:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Author Stephen King railed against gun violence in the wake of Wednesday’s mass shooting in Maine, calling for people to “stop electing apologists for murder.”

“It’s the rapid-fire killing machines, people,” King wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “This is madness in the name of freedom. Stop electing apologists for murder.”

At least 16 people were killed in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday in a mass shooting incident at two locations. Local authorities said the suspect remains at large and residents were instructed to shelter in place. Firearms instructor Robert Card, 40, has been named as a person of interest.

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To: ChicagoConservative27

As it has been with all mass-murders, this guy is a mental case. Recently he spent two weeks in a mental institution, openly threatened to shoot up an air force base and displayed all the attributes of a psychopath. The problem we face has nothing to do with the 2n Amendment, law enforcement and the like. We have a mental health epidemic in this country and the psychiatric doctors don’t seem to be any better than their patients.


41 posted on 10/26/2023 9:24:35 AM PDT by elpadre (rattle snakes)
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To: elpadre

It’s crime when a doctor fails report a loony tune patient like this to the ATF.


42 posted on 10/26/2023 9:27:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The problem is not guns. It’s America’s “mental health” system. Treatment for mental illness was better in the 1800s than it is now. Of course, no ddrug company was making money off it back then. No was any politician.


43 posted on 10/26/2023 9:31:46 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

King, that guy who ran him over was not going fast enough.


44 posted on 10/26/2023 9:33:12 AM PDT by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey, Stephanie, would it make you feel better, little girl, if they was killed with a bolt-action rifle or pump-shotgun instead?


45 posted on 10/26/2023 9:37:13 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Hey Steven King. When was the last time the state of
Maine lawfully executed someone for murder?

What is Maine going to do with this guy who has
murdered how many now, eighteen people??
Life imprisonment?

America is immoral because it doesn't punish
murderers lawfully and quickly with what they deserve -- Death!
46 posted on 10/26/2023 9:46:15 AM PDT by StormEye
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To: NautiNurse

I had that very thought.

I might be wrong- but I think he’s killed himself. He went on an adrenaline pumping killing spree, drove his car to the river and left it there. Did he have another vehicle there that he left in? Or walk into woods/river and shoot himself? Or- he’s alive and going to hide as long as possible. If he was psychotic during shooting, he may have “normalized” and is now in a vague panic. So much depends on his mental state.


47 posted on 10/26/2023 9:50:57 AM PDT by SE Mom (ScreamingEagleMom)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Stop writing books that revel in gore and destruction of the human body.

Stop making explicit movies about that.

Don’t buy the books, borrow them,or buy tickets.

Sure it’s hard to beat someone to death with a book. But the spirit of the nation shifted over sixty years, and King contributed.


48 posted on 10/26/2023 9:53:03 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"...Stop electing apologists for murder..."

Ah. So he doesn't want Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, Tlaib, Bowman, Bush, Casar, or Lee, all Democrats, elected?

They are all in on murder and terrorism.

49 posted on 10/26/2023 9:56:45 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: SE Mom

Shooter Card is an avid fisherman with military surival skills. Left his car near a boat launch. Could have taken the boat across the river to another mode of transport. Apparently, the river prevents going any distance upriver (rapids) or downriver (dam). I’m guessing he is still on the run.


50 posted on 10/26/2023 9:58:44 AM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No Mr. King.

It’s your horror stories and gore.

We need to control your dangerous and bloodthirsty literature and movies that twist peoples minds by desensitizing young people.

What to ban something, how about that idea Mr King?


51 posted on 10/26/2023 9:59:35 AM PDT by Red6
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To: NautiNurse

You may well be right.

For a lefties pov :

https://youtu.be/9e85YhWMFuI?si=IROchTteRbQ_Xo4x

What interested me is this guy saying the family is well known and people avoid them.


52 posted on 10/26/2023 10:04:45 AM PDT by SE Mom (ScreamingEagleMom)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
rather.. stop electing people who refuse to lock up criminals and the deranged, refuse to let you defend yourself and simultaneously call for defunding the police so they cant either!

From your post to Stephen King's brain... if he still has any of one left.

53 posted on 10/26/2023 10:06:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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To: SE Mom

Great video find. Horrible that a baby was killed. The young man interviewed looks and sounds like your typical liberal small town metrosexual. He’s enjoying the media attention.


54 posted on 10/26/2023 10:10:35 AM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: Red6

Sadly, Mr. King is RIGHT.


55 posted on 10/26/2023 10:12:22 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

You could blame his mental state on the accident but he was looney tunes long before that.

Way back when I was a teen, his books were all the rage. I paid good money for a few but soon noticed he couldn’t write past jr high level, his vocabulary was so tiny he had to use cuss words and there tended to be a limp wrist vibe so got over that fad quickly.


56 posted on 10/26/2023 10:15:50 AM PDT by bgill
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To: NautiNurse

Exactly on the young man.

Also found this:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/family-reveals-suspected-gunman-robert-cards-link-to-maine-massacre-sites

And you’re right- according to his sister-in-law they’ve been “messaging him” to turn himself in. He’s alive and on the run.

SIL said he recently started hearing voices.


57 posted on 10/26/2023 10:21:29 AM PDT by SE Mom (ScreamingEagleMom)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I agree with him those who keep electing baby killers need to stop.


58 posted on 10/26/2023 10:33:36 AM PDT by pas
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To: 1Old Pro

Allegedly they got him locked up for mental illness for 2 weeks recently. Sounds like the government’s system for red flagging and gun rights suspension isn’t working very well. There needs to both be enough timely due process to protect the large majority’s rights to guns and self defense, but there also needs to be enough timely due processing of those who are mentally ill to protect the innocent (which might even be themselves.) Given the current mental illness prevalence significant infrastructure changes are needed, including enough legal infrastructure to provide ‘outs’ for those who don’t really need mandated care or supervision but are somehow fall under its evaluation.


59 posted on 10/26/2023 10:49:32 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
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To: heartwood
Stop writing books that revel in gore and destruction of the human body.

I stopped reading King's books many years ago, when it dawned on me that a majority of them involved violence against children. (Carrie, Dreamcatcher, It, etc)

I teach songwriting, and one of the things I teach my students is to write about what they KNOW. Can it be that SK is either a victim of, or potential perpetrator of violent child abuse, and is attempting to exorcise his own demons by writing about "what he knows"? Just throwing that out there.
60 posted on 10/26/2023 10:54:57 AM PDT by left that other site (Romans 8:28)
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