{"id":149034,"date":"2023-10-28T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=149034"},"modified":"2023-10-26T15:18:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T19:18:51","slug":"newest-mass-shooting-checks-all-the-lib-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=149034","title":{"rendered":"Newest mass shooting checks all the lib boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Wednesday in Lewiston, Maine,\u00a0 Robert Card, 40,\u00a0 killed 18 and injured another 13 when he shot up a bowling alley and restaurant. Pearls are firmly grasped, knickers are twisted, and all the usual gun control tropes (we simply MUST ban those scary assault weapons!) are being trotted out.<\/p>\n

Mr. Card is evidently a FIREARMS INSTRUCTOR! He is ARMY TRAINED, a VETERAN. (as an instructor at a Reserves unit, I tend to suspect he was selected either because he volunteered, or because wasn’t there to decline. Would love to see what actual training he\u00a0 got.) He also was referred to psychiatric evaluation earlier this year – and released after two weeks – but this is somehow a reflection on “American gun culture.<\/p>\n

Police identified the suspect as Robert Card, 40, a firearms instructor trained by the military and recently committed to a mental health facility.<\/p>\n

Card has been trained as a firearms instructor at a U.S. Army Reserve training facility in Maine, according to a bulletin shared Wednesday by authorities with the Associated Press.\u00a0 Yahoo News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The news is full of the hysteria…even Stephen King is weighing in tweeting about the “rapid fire killing machines”.<\/p>\n

Turns out Card is an 18 year reservist. A POL specialist. No deployments, (how did his unit miss that since 2002?) no combat, and no PTSD justification “well, there was that time the fuel bowser overflowed and we had to clean up almost 10 gallons” that I can see. It is worth noting that earlier in the year his superiors recommended him for mental evaluation after he was noted behaving erratically this summer -but he was kicked loose with no apparent limitations.<\/p>\n

Kamala and PINO Joe are already calling for an assault weapons ban because Card apparently used an AR-15 clone of some variety or other. You AR owners…you should be ashamed! By your owning an AR you CAUSED this poor, otherwise saintly man, to snap. Had you only stuck to lever-actions\u00a0 no one would have died.You bastards…\u00a0 No one is questioning the miserable failure of our mental\u00a0 health system – or doctors.<\/p>\n

Me, every time I read one of these I thank God the shooter ONLY used an AR-15. Lord only knows what the casualty count\u00a0 would have been with an M-1, or an HK-93, or any other non-poodle-cartridged rifle. Probably closer to 31 dead, not 18 and 13 injured.<\/p>\n

Mr. Card, as of this writing on Thursday is still in the wind. I suspect by the time this comes out (looking like Saturday) he will have been run down, and if recent history is any indication, will probably kill himself as the cops close in. I just wish for once the shooter could get the order right – instead of killing a bunch of people and then killing himself, he needs to reverse that order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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