Live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. A Mass Murderer is on the loose in maine today. One officers say has military training, a proficiency in weapons, and multiple ways to evade police. That Reality Compounding the fear and grief for locals trying to process the 565th Mass Shooting in the u. S. This year. In this case, 18 dead, 13 more wounded, and the Peaceful Community of lewiston changed forever. This city did not deserve this terrible assault on its citizens, on its peace of mind, on its sense of security. No city does. No state, no people. So now as Law Enforcement is in a fullscale search to track down the suspect, robert card, they are also trying to piece together the details of who he is and why he may have done this. Plus, with word that he had been committed to a Mental Hospital earlier this year, a critical question, why did he have a gun and not just any gun, but an assaultstyle rifle in the first place . We start right there in southern maine, a state and communit
Going to do if we say the right thing, the true thing, the necessary thing. so i m going to say the necessary thing, which is, background checks are important. red flaw laws, essential. we should stop selling weapons of war. but if we leave 10 million of them out there, they will become the instruments of terror that we ve seen in el paso, in midland odessa, in sutherland springs, and those are just three mass shootings across our country. and i m confident that the popular will is there, not just among democrats, but republicans and gun owner as well as independents, democrats, and non-gun owners alike. so we ve just got to move now. we ve got to move. let s look at where the polling is. it s interesting, particularly on this issue, it s exactly divided. the latest marist/npr poll, should congress create a mandatory buyback program of assault guns, 45% of the country says yes, 46% of respondents say no. so i hear you, you re not