Shooting in Lewiston ME
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Mental health failure. Guy has previously made threats to shoot up a military base. Read, but not confirmed, he's under a restraining order for a history of domestic violence. Spent two weeks in a mental facility this summer.
Guy should not have had firearms.
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@Mik said in Shooting in Lewiston ME:
@89th said in Shooting in Lewiston ME:
Is Jack from that town? I knew he was Maine
Very close, right across the river. I believe his practice was in Lewiston.
He posted again on FB about an hour ago saying he's safe
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@George-K said in Shooting in Lewiston ME:
@jon-nyc said in Shooting in Lewiston ME:
I can't imagine that 50-60 trauma cases showing up in succession is an easy task
In February 1977, when the "L" derailed and fell to the pavement in the Loop, Northwestern was overwhelmed. And that's with other casualties going to Cook County, Rush, U of I...
I believe there were "only" 11 fatalities at that time.
Just for perspective. On October 7 we admitted 150 causalities. Ten laparotomies. But the ones who worked the most were the orthopedists who spent days debriding shrapnel wounds.
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@Mik said in Shooting in Lewiston ME:
So lemme get this straight… white guys shooting other white people is racist. Ooooookay.
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Owning firearms is racist
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poor funding and understanding of mental health is racist.
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Dead, of a self-inflicted GSW.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/maine-shooting-manhunt-third-day-a335220d?mod=djemalertNEWS
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It's something in the culture. Not the gun culture, the culture at large. There are other countries that have a lot of firearms, but have very few mass shooting events (if any).
Aqua will argue the point, but the army changed from bullseye targets to human silhouette targets, to train soldiers to shoot people. It worked. If that works, then why not first-person shooter games?
And what has changed in our culture to promote mass shootings? Until the Bell Tower event, I'm hard pressed to recall any mass shootings in the U.S.
Lastly, our approach to mental health has to change. Has to.