Another mass shooting

[Kwacky]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67224544

At least 18 dead and the shooter is still at large.

[D41]

It's terrible. Worse yet, the guy responsible is a firearms instructor in the Army Reserve...a skilled operator, I suppose you could say. What a nightmare situation.

[Kwacky]

I'm anti guns, but even if they had tightened the laws there's no way he would have been refused a licence.

[kiwikrasher]

I'm anti guns, but even if they had tightened the laws there's no way he would have been refused a licence.

But when he spent time in a mental health facility and threatened to do exactly what he has done, there was ample chance for that to be reported and the risk followed up on.

[Kwacky]

Maine only has yellow flag rules and it looks like they've not been used.

I still can't understand why assault weapons are for sale.

[D41]

I can't understand why they exist at all in any developed country, outside of a military environment.

[Monty]

It's terrible. Worse yet, the guy responsible is a firearms instructor in the Army Reserve...a skilled operator, I suppose you could say. What a nightmare situation.

.... or you could say. A bit of a busman's holiday!

Sorry, shouldn't make light of it, but it happens so often now we're becoming desensitized to it.

[D41]

Well, I guess they found the suspect, dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.