MASSIVE SHOOTING in MAINE RIGHT NOW and shooter on the lose

[Care4all]

He was in an actual facility.......for 2 weeks...which automatically prohibits him from passing a background check

Did he buy the AR after he committed himself in July? Why are you saying he bought it afterwards?

 

[Hellokitty]

Did he buy the AR after he committed himself in July? Why are you saying he bought it afterwards?

The yellow flag law states that a medical professional can use a court order to have guns removed. So if he had guns they should have been removed and he shouldn't have been able to purchase gun afterwards.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Stupid enough to identify, incarcerate, and hear his plans of shooting people and then LET HIM GO!! WTF happened? Anyone? (This is NOT a 'gunner' thread) How do we allow something like that?

Because the bar to actually incarcerate someone over mental illness or competency is actually quite high. You don't just get to report someone and have them institutionalized, even if they saw they are hearing voices.

 

[Blues Man]

Should people be locked up based only on their words?

It's a serious threat of violence so yeah.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

It's a serious threat of violence so yeah.

Be careful what you ask for

 

[Carl in Michigan]

you pull up the excuse of per capita

I have yet to hear from a black person who understands "per capita". Why is that?

 

[Blues Man]

Be careful what you ask for

Threats are not protected speech.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Threats are not protected speech.

So, two guys get into an argument at a football game and one yells at the other one "I am going to fucking kill you", they should be jailed for that to make sure they do not follow though?

 

[Care4all]

The yellow flag law states that a medical professional can use a court order to have guns removed. So if he had guns they should have been removed and he shouldn't have been able to purchase gun afterwards.

The YELLOW FLAG law says a RELATIVE can turn you over to the police, to hold on to them until they get a mental evaluation and the mental professional evaluating this person under the yellow flag law, can put in a request to take the guns away temporarily, until a judge can give the person due process.

BUT HE WAS NOT TURNED IN BY A RELATIVE using the YELLOW FLAG LAW.....?

he checked himself in for help, he committed himself....to get help, not for an evaluation of whether he could have a gun legally or not?

You would think the mental heath person would have tried to get his guns removed, even though the yellow flag law did not apply....

but that may not be the law in Maine and it may be a very hard task for a mental health professional to succeed at doing?

 

[Blues Man]

So, two guys get into an argument at a football game and one yells at the other one "I am going to fucking kill you", they should be jailed for that to make sure they do not follow though?

Is that the same as threatening to go on a shooting rampage?

And if 2 adults can't control themselves at a stupid football game why shouldn't they be hauled out by the cops?

 

[rightwinger]

These mass shootings are the price we pay for living in a free country.

These shootings are the price we pay for a Second Amendment

 

[1srelluc]

I was hoping to get up this morning and hear the scumbag was dead-ed.

 

[1srelluc]

Reports are that he threatened to shoot-up his reservist base....I would think that alone would get you a one-way trip to the loony bin for a stay much longer than two weeks.

 

[sparky]

2aguy

There have been some 500 mass shootings in the US this year.

400 by July

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/politics/us-400-mass-shootings/index.html

That'd make any terrorist jealous......~S~

 

[Flash]

Violent crime is a problem everywhere in America.

You are full of racist hate against Whites and it makes you look like an asshole.

Violent crime is a major problem in the Democrat controlled big city shitholes with a large demographics of Blacks and Browns. Every weekend in the Black parts of Chicago there is the equivalent of the mass shooting we saw in Maine last night. Sometimes you can see the same numbers of killed and wounded in just one Saturday night if the Negroes are drunk enough.

Even in my county that has low crime it is mostly from the Black and Brown community.

Minority crime is going to get a lot worse in this country now that idiot Potatohead allowed millions of Illegals to flood into this country.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Nahhhh, you are showing your lack of knowledge.....

Who do you rank as the best news paper in the USA?

What's a newspaper???

 

[Flash]

Is that a Right to Carry State ?

The guy is a convicted felon and cannot legally have a firearm.

Another example of how firearm laws do nothing to stop crime.

 

[Auld Phart]

This forum is dedicated to bloviating idiocy.

has been since you showed up.

 

[Flash]

Robert Card, White sex offender with multiple arrests.

Very possibly a conservative/Trump supporter.

The large percentage of people that commit violent crimes in this country are from the demographics that vote for Democrats.

 

[Hellokitty]

The YELLOW FLAG law says a RELATIVE can turn you over to the police, to hold on to them until they get a mental evaluation and the mental professional evaluating this person under the yellow flag law, can put in a request to take the guns away temporarily, until a judge can give the person due process.

BUT HE WAS NOT TURNED IN BY A RELATIVE using the YELLOW FLAG LAW.....?

he checked himself in for help, he committed himself....to get help, not for an evaluation of whether he could have a gun legally or not?

You would think the mental heath person would have tried to get his guns removed, even though the yellow flag law did not apply....

but that may not be the law in Maine and it may be a very hard task for a mental health professional to succeed at doing?

It shouldn't matter what lead to a person getting a mental evaluation if the evaluation concludes a person is planning a mass shooting.