Lewiston, Maine shootings leave at least 16 dead
Lewiston, Maine shootings leave at least 16 dead
At least 16 people are dead in multiple shootings in Lewiston, Maine Wednesday night, according to multiple law enforcement sources. Follow here for the latest.
The guy is white. When do we start hearing something about “mental health care” that nobody will do anything about?
To be fair, the guy did actually self checkin to a mental facility this summer for two weeks and was released. Additionally, Maine is a yellow flag state where firearms can be taken away via a mental health review. (To be clear, this is NOT enough in my opinion).
One of many sources https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/northeast/ap-police-say-theres-an-active-shooter-in-lewiston-maine-and-they-are-investigating-multiple-scenes/
When I searched to see if Maine had red flag laws, all the top results were people opposed to them.
There's a good chance the shooter was one of them, since it looks like he is a "responsible gun owner" that's even more "responsible" than most.
Of course, the pro-gun crowd will seethe if you call him that, but the reality is that he had their full support when he bought a semi-automatic weapon. He still had it when he started hearing voices. He still had it when he started prowling the streets in open carry. Fuck, they probably would have given him the benefit of the doubt when he raised it to fire on an innocent person, as long as he was staunch Republican.
But the moment he pulled the trigger, it becomes "Oh that guy? Yeah he was never one of us. Doesn't count".
Then they'll claim its a mental health problem because he had mental health issues and the gun he used to maximise the number of people he killed and wounded had nothing to do with it.
Then they'll insist that they'll totally entertain the idea of gun control after a mental healthcare system is built that can cure every single man, woman and child in America of serious mental health problems, even the ones that don't want care, so completely they can be trusted with guns for the rest of their lives because they'll never falter and also fuck you we're not paying for it.
He had mental healthcare.
He also had a legally purchased AR-15.
Just as important, cracking down on capitalists. Recovering the wealth they've stolen, and using it to help provide not just for health care. But housing and food security. So people don't have to live under the dread and constant stress to their mental state. That capitalists have engineered to facilitate their theft.
Do we really need to change our laws because some lone wolf who clearly had no political positions at all totally did not get weaponized by the media and churned through a system that literally hands guns to the mentally ill?
Fuck me man. 22 dead now.
Where are all those good guys with guns!
They're saying three locations so far, but I'm only seeing details for two: Schemengees Bar and Grille (restaurant) and Sparetime Recreation (bowling alley).
Scrolling through different news channels, the only update I've heard in the last 45 minutes is the count update from 16 to 22.
They've released an images of the shooter and of his vehicle, a Subaru Outback (kinda silver/white).
https://www.sunjournal.com/2023/10/25/multiple-victims-reported-following-shootings-in-lewiston/
Lewiston public information officer Derrick St. Laurent told the Sun Journal at about 8:15 p.m. that another shooting had been reported at the Walmart Distribution Center on Alfred A Plourde Parkway.
I work in a 911 dispatch center, we had a shooting at a bowling alley a few years ago, it was probably one of the craziest, most stressful incidents we've had since I've been working there. So that hits a little close to home for me.
The incident we had wasn't a mass shooting, just some assholes who shouldn't have had guns got into a fight and started blasting.
It was right after shift change, we had pretty much all just sat down and logged in, usually at that time of day there's not too much really going on, and then suddenly everyone in the room's phone went off at once and everything became chaos for the next hour or so.
The shooting was over by the time we got the first call, the shooter was probably even long-gone, out the door in a car speeding away.
My first caller was just hysterically screaming, I couldn't really get any useful information from them, but from what I could hear in the background it sounded like they were close to the victims, maybe even had been part of their group.
We had about 3 or 4 wildly different descriptions of the suspect. Was it one person or was it three? We're they old or young? Black or white? We're they wearing trench coats, hoodies, military style jackets?
We had a caller who had grabbed some kids and pulled them into a utility closet to hide.
We had calls coming in for the rest of the night and even the next day from people who were there and fled as soon as it started.
Just absolute chaos.
Third location is allegedly a Walmart distribution center
Photo I saw was from the bowling alley. Jesus
Dude looks like Jake Gyllenhall, or is it just me?
They just confirmed 18 during the live conference
Should have linked this instead:
[theonion.com/search?q="No Way To Prevent This"](https://www.theonion.com/search?q="No\ Way\ To\ Prevent\ This")
Edit: Effin hell, Liftoff or Lemmy keeps butchering the URL
Edit 2: Had to escape each space in the URL to make it work
Edit 3: Jerboa users try this link instead:
https://www.theonion.com/search?q=No+Way+To+Prevent+This
(Loses the quotes enforcing the word order in the search matches)
Looks like spaces are not standard per W3 schools. Either have to use pluses or %20.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1211229/in-a-url-should-spaces-be-encoded-using-20-or
The Onion search does not seem to like %20
https://www.theonion.com/search?q=No Way To Prevent This
Liftoff attempts to "correct" the URL with %20s for spaces.
So is it not on Reddit because conservative down votes, shitty algorithm, not enough people compared to bots, or a combination of the above?
Going there for the first time since the migration, and not seeing it anywhere on the top of anything (/Maine had it but couldn't get a sticky) while not logged in made me very satisfied I've made the correct decision sticking around lemmy.
They screwed with the algorithm years ago. It took about 4 hours for it to show up on /r/all via /r/Maine.
I remember when I got breaking news on reddit almost immediately. 4 hours? What a joke.
It's been front page of reddit for many hours now https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/17gjs8e/suspect_at_large_after_2_active_shooter_incidents/
Reddit is a censorship hellhole.
There's so much secretive bullshit going on there it isn't worth taking seriously.
Having a public modlog is necessary to keep mods accountable.
Reddit does absolutely nothing to combat shills and vote manipulation because it all looks like ad impressions to investors.
They're probably here already, since the buy in is so low. But realistically they'd be focused on the bigger sites for something like this.
Wait a shooting? Quick someone get the Constitution back out after we shelved it to stop women from driving on roads and other religions to exist!
It’s up to 22 dead now. Jfc.
Guns are for killing people and semi-automatic guns are for killing lots of people.
And nothing will change.
https://newrepublic.com/article/176042/ar15-gun-culture-unmade-america
The gun that unmade America was built to address a secret, long-suppressed problem: The American fighting man just wasn’t that good at fighting. And if the AR-15 is so feared these days, it’s because it’s brought that sub-competence to the civilian world, where now literally any idiot can use it to unleash mayhem and death.
Tell me you don't know shit about guns without telling me you know shit about guns...
Yeah! I mean look at this former responsible gun owner in Maine! He has a AR-15 and is clearly very good at killing innocent people.
So they're not just for morbidly obese middle-aged men, with neither combat training nor the discipline to undertake it, to parade around with in a poorly articulated tantrum about masks, posing at a sloppy attention for the Fox News cameras.
The only thing these damn gun-grabbers seem to know about guns is how many innocent people they kill and how seldom they deliver on their promises.
Damn video games at it again!
/s
I thought it's all the drag queen's fault these days?
These fuckin men dressin' as ladies, minding their own business! Destroying this great country!
I have a teacher who's a super trump supporter anf says shit like this unironically. One of his favorite movies is Rocky Horror Picture Show, and I think that's just one of the funniest things.
And the ssri drugs the liberal doctors give you that turn the frogs gay.
Got damn pokey mans and tick tacks
Such sad news. I wonder what triggered/motivated him.
Fear
My buddy grew up there. Fucking sad
Stormtroopers have been dispatched and instructed to exercise extreme caution. They will engage the suspected perpetrator only if absolutely necessary. Priority is to capture and bring the suspect to trial, if possible
Make sure to get him some McDonald's first though.
I don't understand why this is even news over there at this point
News networks profit from covering mass shootings. Mass shooting coverage sells more guns which is profitable for the gun lobby. More guns sold means more mass shootings.
It's the circle of "profiting off innocent peoples deaths"
