For 17 years, Sean Hodgson was best friends with the man who would commit Maine's deadliest mass shooting. Hodgson and Robert Card were both Army reservists.
For 17 years, Sean Hodgson was best friends with the man who would commit Maine’s deadliest mass shooting.
In the videos, officials downplayed Hodgson’s warning, suggesting he might have been drunk when he texted at 2:04 a.m. Speaking to police at the training center, Army Reserve Capt. Jeremy Reamer describes Hodgson as “not the most credible of our soldiers” and later tells Sagadahoc Sheriff Sgt. Aaron Skolfield his message should be taken “with a grain of salt.”
It was his Army Reserve Capt. that told authorities not to take him or his warning seriously.
I think we’re at a place where any and all warnings and allegations regarding possible gun violence have to be investigated, regardless of the source, the same way that sexual misconduct allegations requires an investigation in many corporations. There is no “judgement call”. The allegation comes in and you investigate regardless of whether you think it is bullshit or not.
The pro-gun community have taken the stance “I’d rather other people died than I temporarily lost access to my guns”, so despite your suggestion being completely reasonable, they’ll fight it with all they’ve got.
What the hell do they say to summon a “swatting” on someone if they can’t even respond to “This trained guy with a gun says he’s on his way to go shoot a bunch of random people”??
Active hostages. They call and pretend to be in the middle of a mental crisis. Basically drop the “I have my girlfriend hostage, I have a gun, and I’m going to kill both of us unless cops get here ASAP” type stuff. So the cops don’t have time to knock on the door and quietly ask to speak with you. They go in guns blazing and shoot anyone who doesn’t look like a potential girlfriend, (or maybe they do shoot someone who looks like a girlfriend, because cops are trigger happy.)
Sounds like the same level of severity, but I guess the call coming from the alleged shooter (in the first person) is a sort of admission that adds significance to the call in their eyes…
missing this:
It was his Army Reserve Capt. that told authorities not to take him or his warning seriously.
I think we’re at a place where any and all warnings and allegations regarding possible gun violence have to be investigated, regardless of the source, the same way that sexual misconduct allegations requires an investigation in many corporations. There is no “judgement call”. The allegation comes in and you investigate regardless of whether you think it is bullshit or not.
The pro-gun community have taken the stance “I’d rather other people died than I temporarily lost access to my guns”, so despite your suggestion being completely reasonable, they’ll fight it with all they’ve got.
What the hell do they say to summon a “swatting” on someone if they can’t even respond to “This trained guy with a gun says he’s on his way to go shoot a bunch of random people”??
Active hostages. They call and pretend to be in the middle of a mental crisis. Basically drop the “I have my girlfriend hostage, I have a gun, and I’m going to kill both of us unless cops get here ASAP” type stuff. So the cops don’t have time to knock on the door and quietly ask to speak with you. They go in guns blazing and shoot anyone who doesn’t look like a potential girlfriend, (or maybe they do shoot someone who looks like a girlfriend, because cops are trigger happy.)
Sounds like the same level of severity, but I guess the call coming from the alleged shooter (in the first person) is a sort of admission that adds significance to the call in their eyes…
“He has a bomb”? Jokes aside, it’s a good point.