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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.

This dude is straight up rolling in blasting from the photos I've seen. Even if you had a gun on you, you wouldn't have the time to aim before he's mowing you down.

I guess this wasn't one of the 3% of shootings they intervene in, just another of the 99% they enthusiastically enable.

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

There’s always confusion with these things. Where? How many shooters? How many dead? It’ll take a while for completely accurate info to come out. There will be a news conference tomorrow, I’m sure.

I remember when I got breaking news on reddit almost immediately. 4 hours? What a joke.