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‘Davis began behaving erratically and saying things that “didn’t make sense.” Davis had a .357 Revolver, an AK-47, and two other firearms on him while at his father’s house. Unable to calm him down, the family contacted his mother to come and pick him up. Davis’ father drove down Birchwood Drive to meet up with Davis’ mother. Davis got into Smith’s car with his guns.’

A family member known to be mentally ill goes out of control and is desperately handed off by his father to his mother — WITH FOUR WEAPONS ON HIM INCLUDING AN AK47.

“[E]very country contains mentally ill and potentially violent people. Only America arms them,” writes Adam Gopnik. And man this story out of Maine makes that pretty graphic, don’t it. Son killed his mother in the car, then exited and took up a position along the road and starting shooting at passing vehicles. Killed one person and badly injured two before he decided it was time to kill himself. (With the AK47. That’s gotta hurt.)

Shades of Adam Lanza’s mother, who believed giving her violently insane son lots of guns would be therapeutic.

You kinda wonder under what conditions these people would call the police. Or an ambulance. If he had twelve guns on him? Body armor? IEDs?

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What is with these people? Gotta be a death wish.

And meanwhile, civilizationally, it’s really not a good look. “Not even the most primitive of societies can compete now with our new predictable savagery.”

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“This is something that you don’t see very often, even though we saw it in Bowdoin not too long ago,” said a police spokesperson. LOLOL.

Margaret Soltan, April 4, 2025 1:28AM
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