‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

There were no initial signs of terrorism.

The not-terrorism/terrorism scale really is . The article was mentioning that this one event is close to being over the total number of murders in the state for all of 2022.

I find it hard to understand how someone can shoot about 100 people but police still haven't been to catch him yet. Maybe the vast emptiness of the suburban hellscape that makes it possible.

threats to shoot up the National Guard Base

Schemengees Bar & Grille

if only his GPS didn't malfunction

This is a very active and dynamic situation. The image of at least one active killer has been released by police. He is armed with a tactical rifle.

Oh fuck, the shooter is still at large? I can easily imagine this getting worse as people go out to try and find the shooter.

it’s often pointed out that a lot of these guys have npd, which, yeah I buy that, but if npd was the driving factor this would be happening everywhere on earth, or at least everywhere with a lot of guns. What America also has is the diseased atmosphere of a crumbling, self-aggrandizing racist superpower where various segments of society are scapegoated for it crumbling, and you don’t get that in the news or in Psychology Today.

You can’t convince me this isn’t some strategy of tension shit. Like other mass shootings are obviously just pissed of crackers or incels who the police refuse to investigate despite being reported.

But this. This guy was mentally ill but somehow still allowed to be trained with military weapons and train other soldiers. And he was released without being fired, reportedly. And this shooting lasted several hours, and now he’s missing?

looks like another white guy?

Gun laws in Maine, they seem pretty lax. https://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/state-gun-laws/maine/

Open carry allowed with no permit, and it's a "castle doctrine" state.

Where's all the good people with guns?

Almost like you shouldn't let people with genocidal ideologies have guns

firearms instructor

army reservist

The mythical "good guy with a gun" to fashoids, checks all the boxes and yet here he is shooting people in the back at a youth bowling league.

Let me guess, mental illness?

Also, only a matter of time until we learn they were on the FBI’s radar

This is just going to keep happening over and over and over again. It's always a tragedy but never a surprise.

Now we wait for more ChatGPT generated thoughts and prayers and the usual "there is just no way to solve this"

Gotta admit, it’s the first time I’ve heard of that place since I would listen to this song as a child. The way Fred says “Lewiston Maine” has been deeply wired my neurons and I feel like I just got a nu metal activation code.

Edit: i had forgotten how dog shit this song is, I apologize

According to the article he's actually 40 years old and was recently admitted to a mental health facility for two weeks.

having lived in rural maine, yes the nature was beautiful but socially it was pretty depressing and impoverished, but not a lot happens there so an 80-person mass shooting - I'm both really surprised and not very surprised at the same time :/