S19 Ep91: The Lewiston Shootings: An All American Tragedy w/Robert Conlin
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 149 minutes
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Summary
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.
On Today's show, TCT sits down with the author of "The Lewiston Shootings", Robert Conlin, to discuss the case, where people let the shooter down in his mental health treatment, Where Maine did right after the shooting, and what we need to do as a society to start bridging the severe gap so we can stop this epidemic in America!
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| 0:00.0 | And then. Welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host Tim Dix. |
| 0:27.0 | Today is going to be a little bit of a heavy show folks, not going to lie. |
| 0:30.0 | We're going to talk today about an epidemic in America. We're going to talk about mass shootings. |
| 0:35.2 | We're going to talk about one that affected Maine, Lewiston, Maine, and pretty recently, |
| 0:41.2 | 2023. |
| 0:49.0 | A shooting that was, let's just put it this way, devastating to an area of the country that really does not deal with such a violent outburst |
| 1:00.6 | as a mass shooting. |
| 1:01.6 | When you think mass shootings, you don't really think |
| 1:04.0 | heartland of America. You don't think of quiet rural towns. You think of |
| 1:09.9 | areas that are urban. You think urban warfare, let's face it, and you think mass shootings, you think of somewhere where people are poor. |
| 1:20.0 | And I'm just talking straight here folks. |
| 1:25.0 | We tend to want to put that in poorer areas. |
| 1:27.0 | We tend to want to put it in areas where we can file it away |
| 1:30.0 | and don't have to deal with it. |
| 1:37.4 | We shouldn't. Mass shootings are an everyday thing no matter your class, no matter your economic structure, no matter what. It has become an epidemic in America. We're going to say |
| 1:48.6 | some tough things today folks. You know, a lot of politicians want to file this away. They want to file it away as to one thing or another and then go on with their day |
| 1:59.3 | It's interesting because now we're facing a presidential election and on the show we don't talk too |
| 2:03.8 | much politics but today we're going to because gun control will be put on the |
| 2:10.3 | ticket as Joe Biden was replaced with Kamala Harris. |
| 2:15.5 | She's now looking for a vice president |
| 2:17.1 | as of this taping. |
| 2:19.7 | One of those is Senator Kelly, |
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