Forget thoughts and prayers. Residents are demanding less access to guns, more access to mental health services and a “playbook” to help prevent the next threat.
Nancy Pettegrow walks her dog in Lewiston, Maine, where last week a gunman fatally shot 18 people in the deadliest mass killing in the state's history. Jenna Guiggey’s regulars were starting to return, ordering cold brews and pumpkin spice lattes. Two settled into her wooden chairs, a vision approaching normalcy.It had been five days since police found the body of the gunman who had staged the deadliest mass killing in Maine’s history, and Guiggey described the mood as “a fog of grief.
A photographer who nannies 6-month-old twin girls, Lindsey was glad that the conservative House Democrat representing the area had reversed his opposition to banning “assault rifles,” offering an emotional public apology after the shooting.Hunting is huge here, and guns are beloved. Growing up, her father shot bucks for stew and gave the leftovers to families who couldn’t afford to eat well.
Rollins used to teach high-schoolers with the gunman’s grandmother, tackle carpentry projects with his father and employ his sister as a babysitter. They were all, he said, “the type of people who’d give the shirts off their backs.”He didn’t know that Card was telling members of his Army Reserve unit that he had been hearing voices. He hadn’t heard that, months ago, Card“No one goes hunting with that,” said Rollins, an Army veteran who allows people to stalk deer on his 40 acres.
If she had a magic wand, she would give the country’s mental health workers a substantial raise — just as France and other nations had done during the height of the pandemic. Why couldn’t the United States do something similar to boost the morale in psych wards? “If we can figure out how to make the changes we need here,” he said, “then maybe we can fix America.”“There are bad eggs in town,” the retired real estate investor, 69, told another patron, “and what are you going to do?”
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