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[–] 115 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The guy is white. When do we start hearing something about “mental health care” that nobody will do anything about?

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

    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/

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    [+] 71 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Where are all those good guys with guns!

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  • [+] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The shooter is still at large.

    Three locations have been attacked so far.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    It's not really as complex as people make out.

    The gun lobby profits from gun sales. Mass shootings increase gun sales, which in turn increase mass shootings, giving them the growth they demand.

    But mass shootings also increase demand for gun control, so the gun lobby spends millions of dollars openly bribing Republicans, millions more in courts fighting progressives, and undisclosed amounts astro-turfing and seeding talking points online.

    The spreadsheets say that's the path to maximum profits, so that's the path they take. They simply don't care about these 22 people or the 220 before that or the 2,200 before that. It will never be their kids expensive school.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    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.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    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!

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s up to 22 dead now. Jfc.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    And nothing will change.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    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.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Damn video games at it again!

    /s

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Such sad news. I wonder what triggered/motivated him.

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