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October 25th, 2003 was just an ordinary night in Lewiston, a small working-class city of 37,

in Central Maine.

Friends and families had gathered at a bowling alley

called Just in Time Recreation Center.

And Schmengis, a popular sports bar and restaurant.

They felt immune from the violent crime that seemed to rack 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 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 weight 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

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