Robert Conlin - THE LEWISTON SHOOTINGS: An All-American Tragedy

Robert Conlin - THE LEWISTON SHOOTINGS: An All-American
Tragedy

July 26

Never again could anyone say, "It will never happen here!"

Because it did.

October 25, 2023 was just an ordinary night in Lewiston, a small,
working class city of 37,000 in central Maine. Friends and families
had gathered to do what they loved to do with the people they
wanted to be with at a bowling alley called Just-in-Time Recreation
Center and Schemengees, a popular sports bar and restaurant. They
felt immune from the violent crime that seemed to wrack the rest of
the country in a state that the FBI had just named the safest in
America.

Then Robert Card II, a deeply paranoid Army Reserve soldier, walked
into both places with a high-powered rifle and opened fire, killing
18 people and wounding 13 more. He then fled to a third location,
where according to the evidence and the testimony of his best
friend, he likely planned to lay in wait and kill his ex-co-workers
when they came to work the next morning.

The tragedy is that the numerous red flags he had raised in the
months before weren't enough to stop him before he carried out his
terrible plan. A combination of watered-down gun control laws and
law enforcement and military negligence made sure of that.

In THE LEWISTON SHOOTINGS - An All-American Tragedy, author and
award-winning journalist Robert Conlin traces the shootings that
deeply scarred a community that thought it was the last place on
earth where a mass shooting would take place.

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