Eighteen people were killed in a mass shooting at a bowling alley and a bar.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3yag/what-we-know-about-the-maine-mass-shooting-victims?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#MassShootings #shootings #maine #Lewiston #maineshooting
The story doesn't end with the demise of a mass shooter, or finding his apparent motivation in killing many innocent people. It ends when we prevent others like him from obtaining instruments of destruction. #MaineShooting #GunLegislation #VoteTheGOPOut
White House Rips New GOP Speaker’s ‘Offensive’ Mass Shooting Comment
Maine shootings: gunman suspected of killing 18 people found dead | Maine shootings | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/27/maine-shooting-suspect-lewiston-police
There is no mental healthcare in this country thanks to former President Ronald Reagan. His legacy continues…#MaineShooting
Senate Voted to Let Vets With Mental Issues Keep Guns Hours Before Maine Shooting - Five senators who caucus with Democrats joined Republicans in voting to adopt the amendment
#Musk bought #Twitter 1 year ago today.
From Tim Chambers: "The…year’s worth of changes to #X were…stress tested during the global news…last week [from #Israel & #Gaza]…In the eyes of many, myself included, it failed utterly.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/27/technology/twitter-x-elon-musk-anniversary.html
True, & there are a year's worth of other examples.
I live in #Maine & have a front-row seat to this one:
Numerous verified X accounts are claiming that the Maine mass shootings were a 'false flag'
https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/numerous-verified-x-accounts-are-claiming-maine-mass-shootings-were-false-flag
Investigators are dedicating significant resources to searching for the shooter’s body in the river close to where his car was found.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvxe7/maine-mass-shooter-manhunt-what-to-know?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#News #maineshooting #Lewiston #robertcard #gunviolence
Maine is a permitless concealed carry state, and I've read it has the second highest rate of gun ownership in the country. Yet apparently not a single good guy with a gun was around to stop Martin Card during his mass shooting.
I'm sure gun rights advocates will argue the only conclusion to be drawn is they need more guns in Maine.
“I am embarrassed to say that this is what it took—a place I love to become somewhere that a uniquely American tragedy has taken place—for me to fully understand our country’s mass-shooting problem.”
Via Tom Nichols on the bird site
(I still review my lists periodically)
#Maine #MaineShooting #GunViolence
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/lewiston-maine-mass-shooting-guns/675790/
@j … you might be right. He was probably kicked out of that neo-nazi village because of the negative publicity. Couldn’t go to Quebéc or New Brunswick, can’t go to New Hampshire either. That bastard is cornered. The only exit is death. #massshooting #Maine #MaineShooting #gunviolence #Lewiston #ME
@stux My dad is a gun collector, so I've been around "2A absolutists" all my life. What most people don't understand is that expecting these people to give up the #2A is like expecting people like me to willingly give up the 1A.
But both the #1A and the #2A can have restrictions. Rapidfire assault weapons IMHO are no different than yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater (endangering many innocent people in an instant.) There IS a solution: #TaxGunpowder #TaxCordite #MaineShooting
Article: Senate Voted to Let Vets With Mental Issues Keep Guns Hours Before Maine Shooting
#uspolitics #massshooting #Maine #maineshooting #senate #ussenate #guns #mentalillness
This really pisses me off! WTAF!
Senate Voted to Let Vets With Mental Issues Keep Guns Hours Before #MaineShooting
Five senators who caucus with #Democrats joined #Republicans in voting to adopt the amendment
"#AngusKing, an Independent who represents #Maine, also voted to adopt it. So did #SusanCollins, the long-serving Maine Republican. Neither senator’s office immediately responded to requests for comment about the vote."
'Madness in the Name of Freedom,' Says Stephen King After Maine Gun Massacre
https://www.commondreams.org/news/stephen-king-maine-mass-shooting
These AI generated images seemed appropriate with an extremist shooter in Maine and an extremist Speaker in the House. #gop #gunviolence #speaker #soth #maineshooting
