The household of Robert Card, the 40-year-old who shot and killed 18 folks in Lewiston, Maine, final week, reached out to the native sheriff with considerations about his psychological well being 5 months earlier than the shootings, authorities stated on Monday.
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Mental health is irrelevant: "his heart was in the wrong place" – Majority Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
All the necessary laws, rules and regulations were in place. Where was the breakdown?
When your coworker flags you, okay, maybe revenge.
But when your own family flags you too? Then it's criminal negligence. Impressive catastrophic negligence.
If only funding mental health care in the USA made politicians rich, then we'd have proper care instead of the ineffectual third world patchwork we're stuck with.
Ignoring the FACTS. The police should be accountable if the family reported the issue.
Police must act right away with future warnings. What's wrong with people?
If you have lived in Maine, you will encounter or learn of many many mentally unstable people. There’s no way for police to keep up with all of them.
Unless somebody says something or act, nothing will change.
I sincerely commend the shooter's family for warning authorities, that's very unusual. Unfortunately, mental health professionals have no special treatments nor words to deal with such issues. Medications help, as long as the patient is willing to take them, talk therapy helps to some degree, as long as the patient is willing to attend sessions and put in a great deal of long-term effort. This is a legal issue as forced treatment is not permitted and voters don't want any gun restrictions.
Maybe more mental health hospitals? More assisted living? How did he get a gun?
18 dead; cause: pass the buck
Red flags were there ! Still nothing done , PATHETIC 😢😢😢
This is what I've been saying for years now. What good are laws if they are NOT enforced? People even family members report as they should and are ignored. The you wind up with 18 lives cut short because law enforcement is too lazy to do their jobs.
He was flagged LAST summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He was flagged LAST summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Once again we go through another round of point the finger… As ALWAYS it is a case of those in positions to act on Laws <Already> in place not doing what needs to be done. Rinse/Repeat.
Meanwhile we have to continue putting up with Anti-gun activist Blaming the misused tool rather than the Failure of those responsible for enforcing laws designed to prevent these situations.
Its a fairy tale to believe the government will protect you.
The local sheriff has been employed roughly 2 days too long at this point.
Mass Shooting they knew would happen that's why they let him go
I’m actually surprised that CBC is allowing comments online. Then you realize an event in another country with vastly different laws is being used to manipulate the narrative in Canada. Remember to quote Freeland never waste a crisis.
Research continuously reflects that if a govt in either Canada or the USA would increase funding to allow greater access to mental health care, increase funding to law enforcement to allow them to combat gang crime, gun smuggling and drugs and last increase funding to border services as this will dramatically decrease the numbers of illegal firearms in Canada. This can all be backed up by the vast amount of research and data collected by the FBI and CDC. We don’t need to focus on firearms, but we really need to focus on the individual to prevent further deaths from guns.
This has happened with several other shootings here in Canada
Umm its obvious they dropped the ball again. And the antigun legislatures will sign more antigun as if somebody is enforcing it. You had red flag and yellow flag fail. They had all the info and still failed.
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Sheriffs are doing a very bad job in preventing mass shootings in the United States, yet they are still being paid six figures in taxpayer dollars.
This was a psyop. The government made it happen. Mkultra
I ask you all reading this, why? Why did the police do NOTHING, why was nothing done to watch this guy? I ask you all to do some research on the government's program called "MK mind control" This is a gun grab…end of story
some are paid provocateurs. many are the pentagram's mind-control subjects. all are part of your marxist government's gun-grab agenda, on steroids. the Nazi's similarly disarmed the population with propaganda and incidents in 1930s Germany.
It just comes down to is a person right to own a gun more important than saving lives. If you have the evidence that this will happen in the future and dont respond accordingly than you are guilty of the crime committed… unless you are a police officer.
Genetic immunity from the law has ruined this country.
This country still has not addressed mental health . This country is afraid of talking about mental health . This country doesn’t follow up on laws in the book and enforce them. This country doesn’t care if a mentally ill person owns a gun.
The sheriff may have shown poor judgment on this but his main job is law enforcement and keeping order, and his job expectation does not necessarily require the level of judgement needed for this type of situation and how the legal system should come into play. It seems the warning about this seriously mentally ill violent gun toting man should have been sent to a judge who should be more equipped to make the call as to whether legal action should have been promptly taken to remove the threat.
…well he crazy as all hell… And was able to buy a weapon, lol.
This is what happens when you have open carry guns and no background check on anyone. Start to blame each other.
Liberal laws cause this incident, when you disarmed civilians by making this area sensitive places, is like telling criminals and mentally disturbed people “come and get me , I’m disarmed!” There were plenty of evidence since July and this individual was never disarmed, useless liberal laws.
So? What was the sheriff supposed to do? You can't throw people in jail because someone calls and says they are nuts. And it isn't his job to provide health srvices.
They probably get 1000s of reports everyday in Merrca, come on now..
and the police wonder why people don't trust them
The white card: mental health issues.
These guys couldnt even be good mall cops….wtf??????/