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.
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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.
Let me guess, mental illness?
Also, only a matter of time until we learn they were on the FBI’s radar
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.
Only in the army would nobody question the assumption that hearing voices automatically translates into always doing everything the voices tell you to do
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.
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
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