Active Shooter in Lewiston, Maine

originally posted by: tanstaafl2

originally posted by: Windwordagain
a reply to: tanstaafl2

This doesn’t have anything to do with gun laws, in my opinion. This is about people, out and about having fun being ambushed. uInlrss.you have like a designated shooter, like a designated driver, for every event. Armed or not people are not going to be prepared for am ambush while they’re partying.

Try it in Texas...

Someone did....try and keep up!!

www.cnn.com...

and
www.texastribune.org...

a reply to: tanstaafl2

You mean like Uvalde where the "good guys with guns" stood around pissing themselves while children were murdered?

originally posted by: tanstaafl2

originally posted by: sookiechachazback
a reply to: Inspector Idiot
"In 2015, Maine passed a permitlIess carry law that allows its residents to carry loaded, concealed handguns in public without a permit or background checks. That means that any person 21 or older—or at least 18 and active duty or honorably discharged military— who can legally possess a firearm, is allowed to carry a gun openly or concealed. No permit is required to possess a rifle, shotgun, or handgun."
www.newsweek.com...

So, what you're saying is that people in Maine are a bunch of scared children when it comes to personal responsibility and self-protection?

No. I'm saying that the reason that there was no good guy with a gun to save the day ISN'T because Maine's gun laws are too restrictive, or because bars are gun free zones in Maine. They're not.

Hey all,

Long time lurker, 2011 or so. Lewiston is my hometown so I figured I’d say a few words. Not interested in arguing with anyone, just going to report everything I was getting from friends and family who were very much in the midst of it last night. I was born in Lewiston, lived there from ‘82-‘03, my mother, sister, nephew, so many friends and family is up there.

The first text I got said there were 6 active shooters in various locations between Lewiston and Auburn. (They’re called the Twin Cities, they’re connected by 2 main streets that run through each). I jumped on the police scanner right away and my lord, what a mess.

I’ve listened to a LOT of events in the last decade on the scanner, I have never heard false reports like this before. If there’s one conspiracy to ponder, it’s why the f*ck the police were getting so many false reports. I can understand a small town of people getting shaken up and reporting any suspicious activity, but they were getting calls like “2 active shooters at Walmart”, “2 actives shooters on livestream at Rusty Lantern in Sabattus”, it was nonstop for about 3 hours until they finally found the guy’s car and then it mostly calmed down.

He ditched his car less than a mile from my mother’s apartment, who lives in Lisbon. I was on the phone with her as agents swarmed her parking lot and the chopper circled above for the next hour or so before moving directly over my sister’s apartment where it was all repeated.

If this guy had any of this planned out, this will basically be like trying to find Rambo in the woods of Maine. The area he left his car has no light pollution, there’s a stream at the boat launch that leads into the Androscoggin River and if he had a boat waiting, by the time the cops got there he could have been long gone. He had the river to the south of him and the woods to the north.

The particular area he left his car in is all peaks, valleys and hills surrounded by the forest. Staying hidden there can be extremely easy. Hell, if he got on a boat he can basically go to shore at any point and be in the woods where no one will find him.

All my family is accounted for, I still have 3 friends MIA, but it’s not unusual for them to go off the radar for a while. I cannot describe the surreal feeling of seeing this go down from afar. Hearing these places talked about on the news, speculating about the people and the city. Every time they pronounce something wrong on TV I want to scream at them the correct way to say it. FYI- it’s pronounced SHMEN-GEEZ, I know it’s spelled Schemengees, that’s not how it’s pronounced. I played some of my first band gigs in that place. Spare Time is where we went bowling on high school dates, we had our pre-prom party there.

While no city deserves this, this was akin to kicking a man while he’s been down for a century. Lewiston has experienced generational poverty since the 1920’s, it’s always been a depressed city and fentanyl has ravaged it in the last several years. I honestly fear for the response to this over the coming months, as the feeling of hopelessness is why I moved out 20 years ago and that feeling still remains there when I visit.

I don’t care about all the arguing, no one on this forum is going to fix this problem. I just want to go hug my family and friends.

I’m more than happy to answer any questions anyone has about the area. I’m not here to speculate on things, though. While I’m generally quite stoic with emotions, this has me quite tripped up and I don’t even know when something is going to set me off. Craziest range of emotions I’ve ever felt, specifically telling my mom, “Don’t worry, you’re surrounded by hundreds of armed officers….” as the chopper was above her apartment and a potential shootout could break out at any point.

originally posted by: Threadbarer
a reply to: tanstaafl2

Maine doesn't have restrictive gun laws. In fact, nearly half the state owns guns and it ranks 16th for gun ownership.

Yeah, I’m a little perplexed at the claim they have restrictive gun laws. I do not know a single person who is not a gun owner in Maine. All my family is hunters, we were shooting .22’s when we were 8. The majority of friends/family still have gun racks in their living rooms and it’s not locked up, nor is it unusual, it’s how we grew up.

Possible mass shooting occuring on a NJ military base at this moment. If there is anything to it, we'll hear more.

The Northeast... sigh.

originally posted by: sookiechachazback

Right...
the government got caught messing with citizens, they said they're sorry and stopped doing it. Yeah, that's the ticket.
/sarc off

OK I'll put you down as the guy was mind-controlled into doing it...gotcha

twitter.com...

Appears they may have him cornered.

originally posted by: JinMI
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Appears they may have him cornered.

How did you get your old account back?

a reply to: JinMI

Wow, I thought for sure he'd off himself.

originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: JinMI

Wow, I thought for sure he'd off himself.

That would have been the most efficient and logical process.

a reply to: JinMI

Save some tax payer dollars for sure. He'll probably end up in the Colorado supermax.

Turns out, there was no one in the home.


Police are vacating.

Suspect still at large.

In case you haven’t started hearing it yet, you’re going to hear the news you all expected you would about him.

Go ahead and type ‘Bowdoin’ into Google Earth to see what kind of area this guy is from. His family has multiple homes on acres of land and have been there for generations. This guy did not pop up overnight, this is a town where everyone knows you because if you’re not related then you’re; in a relationship, hate each other, friends. There are no strangers Bowdoin, acquaintances might even be pushing it. Everyone shops at the same market in town, it’s pretty much the only one they’ve got.

You can also see the kind of forests this guy has to hide out in up there. Lisbon has some woods, Bowdoin is forests. They found a suicide note written to his son, no manifesto, giving him bank account info and I guess ranting about something but they didn’t disclose it and said it had no motive involved. I also heard one report that they were wrong about him being a firearms instructor, but I still see it on ABC. I’ve mostly been watching Agenda Free TV…..the guy is a little tough to tolerate at times, but he’s gotten some info from reporters on the ground before it’s hit any of the networks, even the local stations.

I’m at work and can’t watch the news but my sister just sent me texts; they’re outside her job in Lisbon barking orders over the bullhorn again. It’s a lettuce farm with a bunch of individual buildings for hydro growing that regularly has unsecured doors because it’s Lisbon and ‘who cares about lettuce in Lisbon’, not sure if they have a legit lead or if they’re just assuming he can be in there because of the size of the place and ample hiding places.

I know I’m coming off a bit entitled here, but I’d REALLY like for all these events to stop happening in the immediate location of my family members. This has been a rollercoaster of emotions and very little sleep.

a reply to: DrewJD

It appears the manhunt is now over. The the suspected shooter, Robert Card, has been found, in the woods, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A gun was found beside his body.

...On the eve before hunting season is set to begin.
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