With mass shooting, horror comes to Lewiston, and all of Maine
Maine often feels like a relatively calm and sheltered corner of an otherwise tumultuous world. That calm was shattered to pieces Wednesday night.
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Maine often feels like a relatively calm and sheltered corner of an otherwise tumultuous world. That calm was shattered to pieces Wednesday night.
Maine doesn’t have specific measures that have been shown to reduce gun deaths among adults, according to experts.
Using biology to understand criminal behavior has long been controversial. Top criminology programs are pursuing it anyway.
An April mass shooting has drawn renewed attention to a problem that arises with some regularity in Maine: people banned from having guns because of criminal or civil penalties are nevertheless getting them, and in some tragic cases, using them — contributing to a persistent problem of domestic violence killings and inflaming other forms of crime and violence.
The Sportsman's Alliance of Maine along with the Department of Public Safety were part of the discussions. This comes as the nation sees a rise in gun violence