Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

Did they get him?

I believe they are still looking for him.

In a state that's 90% forest, god help them

The worry I'd have is that he's going to pop out somewhere else and try another one of these things. I hope everybody takes the local lockdown seriously, but one wonders if he's even in the area anymore.

90% forest and 5% bearded white men with guns — hay in a haystack.

hope he gets stomped by a moose

stomplamoose'd

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a moose IIRC

Lol sufjan

A well-regulated mooselitia

Golden: I have opposed efforts to ban deadly weapons of war like the assault rifle he used to carry out this crime. The time has now come for me to take responsibility for this failure. Which is why I now call on the United States congress to ban assault rifles pic.twitter.com/0k60XJQoaB

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 26, 2023

Good luck with that, pro-gun Dem.

they are surrounding his house now. you'd think they would have checked there earlier

Well he had a sign that said no solicitation

"everyone in maine carries" is complete horseshit

Senate Voted to Let Vets With Mental Issues Keep Guns Hours Before Maine Shooting

no paywall via yahoo:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-voted-let-vets-mental-205000099.html

https://www.newsweek.com/robert-card-maine-mass-shooting-social-media-posts-1838068

Not a fan of the Daily Mail, but they just posted a story with the headline Fugitive 'gun fanatic' Robert Card lived in COMPOUND in sleepy Maine town with firearm-crazed family who neighbors avoided, as manhunt continues

The relevant part:

Fugitive Maine shooting suspect Robert Card lived in a 'compound' with his gun-fanatic family, according to a local who claimed neighbors tried to avoid the alleged killer.

Liam Kent, who lives near Card's home in Bowdoin, told The Messenger the community knew the suspect and his relatives as 'gun-toting enthusiasts who lived in 'basically a compound.'

'They would shoot guns all the time, you could hear them every day after school. It was like clockwork,' Kent claimed, adding that he once saw Card 'covered in blood with a gun on his back (and) a giant grin on his face' after going deer hunting.

The suspect received involuntary psychiatric treatment this summer after he reported hearing voices and having thoughts about hurting other soldiers while training at Camp Smith in New York, a military source told CNN.

He was committed to a mental health institution for about two weeks this summer after threatening to shoot up a national guard base.

how long are they going to be actively looking for him? I don't think I've ever heard of one of these guys actually getting away.

what about John Rambo?

Eric Rudolph was a fugitive for, what, 5 years?

Yeah. He was a survivalist though. Not sure if this guy packed enough jerky.

Robert Card, who was wanted in connection with the shootings at Schemengees Bar and Grille and at Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley in Lewiston, is believed to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a law enforcement official tells The Associated Press. Press conference will be held at 10 p.m. EST

(cut-and-paste job, should've put that in italics)

He died doing what he loved.

Just now I was reading the CNN profiles (? this deserves a better word) of the 18 dead, which is how I learned that a number of them were participating in a deaf cornhole league. I don't know what to do with this information. It breaks my heart.

He should have just taken himself out in the first place without visiting misery on so many others.

A more common scenario, to be fair

He was hearing evil voices from the bowling alley though. Not every case is the same but for an outsider it’s pretty terrifying to see how that kind of paranoia has a hold on someone with severe schizophrenia. I even had another encounter with what was probably a paranoid schizophrenic during the New York Film Festival. He ran up to the ticket window, clearly “looking” for the people there and repeated angry accusations that they were secretly talking about terrible things involving him. When a staff member tried to accost him, he spit a giant loogie on the window and fled in terror. He looked like he was very poor and homeless and not likely to own a gun, but imagine if Card had become like that.

(To be clear, what I meant was, he should never have had access to guns when it was obvious he lost his mind.)

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— David Roberts (@drvolts) October 30, 2023

see, the good guy with a gun isn't a myth.

All it takes to stop a bad guy with a gun is a bad guy with a gun.

There is currently a dustup in Georgia about whether to arm teachers. Republican lawmakers want to offer financial incentive for them to get training and carry. Fucking insane.

nothing says 'public safety' more than having a bunch of unsecured handguns floating around an elementary school

good luck with the lawsuit when an unhinged teacher kills a few students with a state-sponsored handgun.

My elementary school principal got fired for bringing a gun to school and pointing it at a kid in his office

Thinking about all of my high school teachers and how definitely none of them should have had guns.

My elementary school principal got fired for bringing a gun to school and pointing it at a kid in his office

It was the 80s, man

He didn't shoot the kid but still got fired? Draconian imo

The kid probably ripped him off in coke deal anyway

The right to bear arms and flash them at minors shall not be infringed.

did he then kick a gun over to the kid and say "pick up the gun"?

It was the 80s, man

Even the Reagan administration supported gun control, and when his successor George H.W. Bush was in office, he rejected the NRA for its sociopathic extremism - that's how fucked up the gun culture is today.

xpost sad lol

The PBS News Hours just listed all the red flags on this Maine dude... the family, the army reserve, everybody was saying this guy is about to snap.. the cops went by his house a couple times but then just let it go

They were on their way to a Dunkin'

I think Maine has some kinda sort 'yellow flag' laws without the teeth of other states' red flag laws

i don't blame the cops. unless there was some severe screw up on that end. it's the lawmakers.

it is 100% on the cops to assess if he's a threat (there was ample evidence) and take him into custody or take his guns away. 100% no debate.