Mass shooting of the (yester)day - Maine

[cattledogkisses]

A man shot and killed 4 people at a residence, and then shot 3 more people at random while driving on the highway. 

He'd just been released from prison last Friday, and was a convicted felon with an extensive criminal record including aggravated assault, domestic violence assault, assaulting a law enforcement officer, DUI, and multiple occasions of possessing a concealed firearm as a convicted felon. 

This man should not have been able to access a gun, FFS. 

www.pressherald.com/2023/04/19/man-arrested-in-bowdoin-murders-posted-online-about-struggles-asked-for-forgiveness/

[NewOrleans]

😩😩😩😩😩

[Gato]

This was the same town where I helped search for a lost dog a few weeks ago. I was impressed with how friendly and helpful people were! On the town Facebook page, everyone was shocked "that it could happen here." Yeah, if you let guy who's spent his entire adult life in and out of jail for assaulting people have a gun, he will use it in anti-social ways. Good grief.

Sort of a tangent, but this short article on America's super-high death rate amongst young people seems appropriate:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/america-mortality-rate-guns-health/673799/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=work-in-progress&utm_content=20230421&utm_term=Work%20in%20Progress