The guy is white. When do we start hearing something about “mental health care” that nobody will do anything about?
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Where are all those good guys with guns!
Dead, because they're a priority target.
Open carry is for inch-dick assholes.
But “aR StYle wEapONs doN’t MAke A diFfeRenCe”
I guess this wasn't one of the 3% of shootings they intervene in, just another of the 99% they enthusiastically enable.
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.
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.
The shooter is still at large.
Three locations have been attacked so far.
A large chunk decided to pretend gun laws were never a thing.
Maybe it's because western movies went out of style, where refusing to turn your guns over to the sheriff was the entire plot point.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Damn video games at it again!
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I thought it's all the drag queen's fault these days?
Such sad news. I wonder what triggered/motivated him.
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