Lewiston, Maine

October 26, 2023- Thursday

We don't know what causes people to lose their minds and start destroying people.  Last night, Lewiston, Maine became the latest community ripped apart by the pathology of person who decided shooting and killing people was a good thing to do.  At this point, eighteen people have lost their lives and thirty other people are severely wounded by a man who is criminally mentally ill.  

Our society is split by who can have guns and who cannot.  Many people want to see all guns removed from society.  That isn't going to happen.  If the person who is being hunted right now truly did the shooting, he is a military firearms trainer. What do you do with this?  

Psychologists, psychiatrists and many others continue to study and work to find ways to predict who might be a person who loses their mind for some reason and resort to killing people.  No progress has been made.  The killings continue.  It's more than horrible.  It is a stunning weakness in our society and one we all need to continue to beware.  We're all totally fatigued with this type of event and desperately want to see it stop.

The politics of this situation will come alive again, probably this afternoon.  I hope more time is spent on trying to determine what the cause of the thought processes are around someone deciding to kill a bunch of people.  No, I don't think automatic weapons should be available to everyone, but this person falls outside even that stipulation.  We need to look for the root causes of this derangement and pathology, so we can really start to stop this type of thinking.