Active Shooter in Lewiston, Maine

[JCSR]

These are not my words but I think sums things up pretty good.

'Just talked to a buddy who was at the shooting last night attending a cornhole tournament.

His 2 teammates were killed and the competing team of three.

He won't talk over the phone but is texting. Just showing support and not asking him any specifics at the moment.

He said when shooter reloaded he ran.

Nobody fired back. Out of that entire crown not an armed citizen to stop this.

Guy had time to reload with no resistance.'

 

[BackFromDC]

just in time to deflect from uncontrolled migrants coming in and dying from lack of care in the Sanctuary Cities, dyed-haired they/them pro-hamas Nazis chanting for the extermination of Jews in schools, and the economy toileting to the brink of absolute depression

 

[ChristianPatriot]

 

[dukeboy_318]

Sad as it is, the left is gearing up for the ban talk again

 

[JCSR]

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There should be a law against the mentally ill owning guns ................never mind.

 

[HoughMade]

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Actual facts. This is not what I have come to expect in the first 24 hours after one of these.

 

[HoughMade]

There should be a law against the mentally ill owning guns ................never mind.

And a legal process to remove guns from those who have been institutionalized?

 

[ZurokSlayer7X9]

Perhaps I need to adjust my tinfoil hat, but I don't think mere incompetence reasonably explains everything.

Some say that there is a fine line between nefariousness and incompetence, and that don't subscribe to malice what can be explained with incompetence. I say that that saying is a double edged sword and gives the impression that there is no evil in the world and that it's filled with a bunch of buffoons. The darkest and worst things in human history were done by very intelligent and competent people who either had good intentions or wanted to see the world burn.

 

[Bugzilla]

And order the populace to hide in your house! How about instead a $1,000,000 bounty dead or alive!

 

[Twangbanger]

Incompetence. Plain and simple.

How else do you explain all of the busts they parade out are all just useful idiots who couldnt/wouldnt have done the deed without their agent's help? "We busted this guy who said he wanted to shoot up a school. We busted him after our agents attempted to provide him the guns and plans he otherwise couldnt have acquired on his own."

And going a bit farther back, look at the case that started Ruby Ridge. They had to HOUND Randy until he cut down the shotguns to make them leave him alone. Or Koresh. They could have easily arrested him during a trip to town when it was just him and one or two others.

So in a word, yes.

The stuff that makes the news (Ruby Ridge, F'nF) sound more like frat pranks than legitimate federal law enforcement activity.

 

[bwframe]

 

[mmpsteve]

... The darkest and worst things in human history were done by very intelligent and competent people who either had good intentions or wanted to see the world burn, or were totally bat**** crazy, or were just plain evil.

Yes, this covers most of the despair that plagues our world.

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[Twangbanger]

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It's puzzling that the existence of deranged people walking around freely has become a "societal norm" which must be accepted as inevitable...but 200 year-old freedoms are the things that need to change.

Neurodivergency is the new and society-defining frontier of civil rights. We need to be able to discriminate against people who are dangerous. They deserve compassion, but elevating them to protected-civil-rights status is backfiring on us big-time.

 

[bwframe]

It's puzzling that the existence of deranged people walking around freely has become a "societal norm" which must be accepted as inevitable...but 200 year-old freedoms are the things that need to change.

If the poor folks in the bowling alley and restaurant would have had the actual 200 year old freedom, how many more of them would be alive and uninjured now?

 

[JCSR]

If the poor folks in the bowling alley and restaurant would have had the actual 200 year old freedom, how many more of them would be alive and uninjured now?

But the sign said NO GUNS......................

 

[BackFromDC]

There should be a law against the mentally ill owning guns ................never mind.

but the leftists/liberals will chant the "only cops and military should have guns"...what would happen when one of our uniformed service members takes a mental hit?...because oh boy do we take a lot of hits to our mentality...

 

[Bugzilla]

Normal to low weekend body count for Chicago and you never hear about it.

 

[snorko]

Certainly a Diken's drill would have gone a long way.

 

[HoughMade]

Fun fact- being a prohibited person does not mean you were not, or are not a firearms instructor. It only means that once you were a prohibited person, it was illegal for you to possess a firearm and, logically speaking, to be a firearms instructor.

I don't know the truth of this "firearms instructor" thing and I certainly don't trust the media to get the details like this right, but just because he was a prohibited person does not mean he was not a firearms instructor.

The same logic would dictate that since he was a prohibited person, he could not possess a firearm and, therefore, was not the shooter. Well, it seems like that didn't work out.

 

[foszoe]

but the leftists/liberals will chant the "only cops and military should have guns"...

I am not sure they would go that far either