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The suspect is believed to be Robert Card, a 20-year US Army veteran from Bowdoin Center, Maine.

(according to Telegrams so take with grain of salt)

EDIT: Name confirmed by news.

According to law enforcement, CARD recently reported mental health issues to include hearing voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard Base in Saco, ME.

    • @dannoffs
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      358 months ago

      Preliminary reporting seems to suggest that it might actually be a mental illness thing. They reported to superiors that they were hearing voices and were discharged without any restriction on owning high caliber firearms.

      • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]
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        8 months ago

        They reported to superiors that they were hearing voices and were discharged without any restriction on owning high caliber firearms

        galaxy-brain GEE, IF ONLY SOMETHING COULD’VE BEEN DONE ABOUT SUCH AN UNPREVENTABLE TRAGEDY joker-amerikkklap

      • D3FNC [any]
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        48 months ago

        Only in the army would nobody question the assumption that hearing voices automatically translates into always doing everything the voices tell you to do

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      198 months ago

      That’s an understatement

      He has a written record of telling people voices in his head were telling him to shoot up the army base.

      • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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        98 months ago

        Hmm wonder if something about the US army causes people to mentally deteriorate

        Being told to kill whatever looks at you funny might be detrimental to one’s mind idk tho

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          28 months ago

          I wonder if structurally stripping away someone’s individuality and personality to make it easier to mold them into an unthinking murderer has any wider implications