Maine State Police documents released Tuesday shed light on why a delusional U.S. Army reservist who killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston may have targeted those locations.
Robert Card, 40, was found dead Friday, two days after a rampage that also wounded 13 people and shut down multiple communities during a massive search on land and water.
Three hours after the shooting began, state police interviewed a woman who said Card believed the Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley, Schemengees Bar and Grille and several other businesses were “broadcasting online that Robert was a pedophile.”
The woman said Card had been delusional since February after a break-up, had been hospitalized for mental illness and prescribed medication that he stopped taking, according to a police affidavit filed in support of an arrest warrant request.
The entire system failed. Simple as that. A veteran was left uncared for. The greater mental healthcare system (which isn’t exactly much) didn’t work. And SOMEHOW, this guy was STILL allowed to carry a weapon with mass killing potential.
Nothing’s going to change. It’ll be forgotten. We’ll repeat it over and over.
Fuck the gun lobby. Fuck the health industry lobby. Fuck all of the money and greed stopping us from ever fixing this.
After nothing changed following Sandy Hook I knew nothing ever would. That was confirmed after Uvalde where loads of trained good guys with guns stood by and listened to a massacre unfold.
Fucking greedy conservatives won’t let us have Single-payer with mental health access; dumb fucks won’t let prevent mentally-ill from having easy access to lethally-efficient weapons.
Sounds like a good summary. Without the greed, it’d be a distant memory already.
America is a dead country as long as Republicans hold office
Robert Card was trained as a national guard member and didnt see combat.
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At least he’ll be known as a mass murderer instead, not sure if that’s any better.
