Active shooter situation in Lewiston Maine

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  1. NYJetsO12

    NYJetsO12 Well-Known Member

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    The guns used in the mass shootings like in Uvalde Texas and other horrific events should be banned..ok???? Again people don’t care about rounds per minutes when come to pulse and heartbeats ..smh 8 xs
     
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  2. Jonathan_Vilma

    Jonathan_Vilma Well-Known Member

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    Well that’s the point. He shouldn’t have been able to have them if he was admitted to a mental hospital. I don’t know all of the laws but it seems to have been indicated that the police could’ve done something if they knew.
     
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  3. typeOnegative13NY

    typeOnegative13NY Well-Known Member

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    Apparently you do, right? Because there must be a specific reason you want certain guns banned over others?
     
  4. BrowningNagle

    BrowningNagle Well-Known Member

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    well he can. There’s nothing in the law saying you can’t own a rifle if you’ve been admitted to a hospital
     
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  5. Acad23

    Acad23 Well-Known Member

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    I believe Maine does not have a “red flag” or “extreme risk protection order” law...

    They need to change that.
     
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  6. typeOnegative13NY

    typeOnegative13NY Well-Known Member

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    Something needs to change. This guy is a prime example of intelligence failure.
     
  7. Jonathan_Vilma

    Jonathan_Vilma Well-Known Member

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    That’s not true. Maine’s law is a little bit more ambiguous but the federal statute is not. And it’s not a hospital it’s a mental hospital.

    Seems like plenty to take the guns away.
     
  8. BrowningNagle

    BrowningNagle Well-Known Member

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    that’s at the point of sale
     
  9. BrowningNagle

    BrowningNagle Well-Known Member

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    They showed some poor guy on the news, he lost his daughter to a car accident like a year ago and then his son in this mass shooting at the bowling alley

    they asked him if he hates the a-hole that shot his son and he said no, and I quote “hate is how these things happen”

    amazing guy
     
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  10. Acad23

    Acad23 Well-Known Member

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    That guy needs to up his hate quotient...
     
  11. BrowningNagle

    BrowningNagle Well-Known Member

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    They found the POS. Of course he killed himself
     
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  12. Acad23

    Acad23 Well-Known Member

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    Promise kept.
     
  13. NYGalPal

    NYGalPal Well-Known Member

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    I wish he just did this before ending all those people lives.
     
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    abyzmul R.J. MacReady, 21018 Funniest Member Award Winner

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    Guns can hate? ;)
     
  17. Greenday4537

    Greenday4537 Well-Known Member

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    They have a "yellow" flag law so I heard. If a doctor and judge agree someone is too unstable to have guns, then they can seize them.

    Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk
     
  18. barfolomew

    barfolomew The Most Resilient Member

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    Since he's been caught I've been interested to know about this murderer. He's a peculiar case. That said I haven't done any reading on him or this case yet. I'm just exhausted by the cases, the massacres. There are so many of these.
     
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  19. BrowningNagle

    BrowningNagle Well-Known Member

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    he must have had some money to buy all that ammo for that weapon. The average AR-15 is pretty cheap, but his was not average
     
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    barfolomew The Most Resilient Member

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