Published October 28, 2023
Joe Biden is using the horrific shootings in Maine to push for greater gun control. This is no surprise because Democrats use every shooting to push for gun control.
What is notable is that Biden is using a line which no longer applies. Biden is asking ‘who the hell’ needs a high-capacity assault weapon?
There is a very simple answer to that question after what we just saw in Israel. People who were being dragged out of their homes by a hostile, invading force obviously needed high-capacity assault weapons.
Millions of Americans across the country know this, but our president apparently does not.
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SOURCE: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/biden-uses-maine-shooting-push-gun-control-point/
RELATED: Biden asks ‘who the hell’ needs a high-capacity assault weapon after Maine shooting
Published October 28, 2023
President Biden questioned the need for high-capacity magazines for assault weapons on Friday, amid calls for new gun control legislation after a mass shooting in Maine.
“Who the hell needs an assault weapon that can hold, in some cases, up to 100 rounds?” Biden said at a campaign reception Friday evening.
His comments come after a gunman killed at least 18 people and injured 13 more in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday evening, sparking renewed calls for gun control legislation and an assault weapons ban.
The suspected gunman, Robert Card, was found dead late Friday after a massive manhunt. It is believed he used an assault-style weapon in the shooting.
“I once again call on Republicans in Congress to fulfill their obligation to keep the American people safe,” Biden said late Friday, after the suspected gunman was found. “Until that day comes, I will continue to do everything in my power to end this gun violence epidemic. The Lewiston community — and all Americans — deserve nothing less.”
After the shooting, Maine politicians committed to pursuing gun control legislation in Congress. Sen. Susan Collins (R) said Congress should pass a limit on high-capacity magazines, while Rep. Jared Golden (D), a Lewiston native, went a step further and backed an assault weapons ban.
Golden previously opposed a ban, but changed his mind after the mass shooting.
“Out of fear of this dangerous world that we live in, in my determination to protect my own daughter and wife in our own community, because of a false confidence that our community was above this and that we could be in full control, among many other misjudgments, I have opposed efforts to ban deadly weapons of war, like the assault rifle used to carry out this crime,” Golden said at a press conference Thursday.
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SOURCE: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4280952-biden-high-capacity-assault-weapons-maine-shooting/
RELATED: Authorities: Robert Card Was Not Involuntarily Committed, Therefore Not Barred From Passing Firearm Background Check
Published October 28, 2023
Maine Commissioner of Public Safety Mike Sauschuck indicated during a Saturday morning press conference that Maine shooting suspect Robert Card was never involuntarily committed for mental health issues and was therefore not barred from passing a firearm background check.
Breitbart News reported that police took Card for an evaluation at a hospital while he was at West Point in mid-July 2023, and this raised questions of why Maine’s yellow flag law was not triggered.
Two relevant questions are 1) Did Card’s mental evaluation at a West Point hospital in mid-July 2023 not reach the level of an involuntary commitment? or 2) Did someone drop the ball in reporting an involuntary commitment to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to prevent passage of a background check?
On Saturday morning Sauschuck clarified that undergoing an evaluation is not the same thing as being involuntary committed.
He said, “You can volunteer for treatment for months on end, but if you’re not forcibly committed to seek that treatment–and it’s very specific to treatment,” then it does not qualify as being involuntarily committed.
Sauschuck added, “In this scenario, I have not seen to this point that Mr. Card was forcibly committed for treatment. And if that didn’t happen, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) check, you go into a firearms dealer who does all their work, and the background check is not going to ping that this individual is prohibited.”
He stressed, “Just because there appears to be a mental health nexus to this scenario, the vast, vast, vast majority of people with a mental health diagnosis will never hurt anybody.”
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SOURCE: https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/10/28/authorities-robert-card-was-not-involuntary-committed-therefore-not-barred-passing-firearm-background-check/
RELATED: Content of Suicide Note Left by Lewiston Shooter Revealed, Body Found Inside of Trailer
Published October 28, 2023
Maine Department of Public Safety Commissioner Mike Sauschuck held a press conference on Saturday afternoon and revealed more details regarding a suicide note that Lewiston mass shooter left behind suspect Robert Card.
During the press conference, Sauschuck noted that he’s well aware of the public’s concern about the note that was left behind by Card and stated, “I’m not going to read it to you verbatim, but it’s a note to a loved one and is saying that this is the passcode for my phone and bank account numbers.
Sauschuck continued, “I wouldn’t describe it as an explicit suicide note, but the tone and tenor was that the individual was not going to be around and wanted to make sure that this loved one had access to his phone and whatever was in his phone.
WATCH:
https://x.com/TriuneTimes/status/1718374438192791579?s=20
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SOURCE: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/content-suicide-note-left-lewiston-shooter-revealed-body/
RELATED: A Bar Manager, Best Friends and Sister: Remembering the Victims of the Maine Mass Shootings
The mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, began at 6:56 p.m. on Wednesday night. Eighteen people were killed and 13 were injured in the shootings at two locations
From top left, Billy Bracket, Ron Morin, Joseph Walker, Steven Vozzella and Bill Young. From bottom left, Tricia Asselin, Peyton Brewer-Ross, Joshua Seal, Maxx Hathaway and Aaron Young.
Published October 27, 2023
Eighteen people were killed and 13 were injured in Wednesday night’s mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, Maine Governor Janet Mills confirmed on Thursday.
The suspect, Robert Card, 40, is a Petroleum Supply Specialist in the U.S. Army Reserve, Army Spokesman Bryce Dubee tells PEOPLE. He has been charged with eight counts of murder and is currently at large. Authorities say the charges will likely increase as they continue to identify the victims.
