The guy is white. When do we start hearing something about “mental health care” that nobody will do anything about?
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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Whoa whoa whoa. We haven't even gotten to thoughts and prayers. Then comes mental health. Last is the "it's too soon to talk about this". Then the cycle starts anew.
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.
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It's almost like those programs don't work, and we just need a total prohibition on guns 🤷
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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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Fuck me man. 22 dead now.
Where are all those good guys with guns!
Dead, because they're a priority target.
Open carry is for inch-dick assholes.
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.
yes, that's the point
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I guess this wasn't one of the 3% of shootings they intervene in, just another of the 99% they enthusiastically enable.
They just confirmed 18 during the live conference
The shooter is still at large.
Three locations have been attacked so far.
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.
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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.
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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And nothing will change.
Damn video games at it again!
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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.
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Such sad news. I wonder what triggered/motivated him.
Fear
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