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  • The Lewiston Shootings

  • An All-American Tragedy
  • By: Robert Conlin
  • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
  • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
  • 2.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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The Lewiston Shootings

By: Robert Conlin
Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
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October 25, 2023 was just an ordinary night in Lewiston, a small, working class city of 37,000 in central Maine. Friends and families had gathered to do what they loved to do with the people they wanted to be with at a bowling alley called Just-in-Time Recreation Center and Schemengees, a popular sports bar and restaurant. They felt immune from the violent crime that seemed to wrack 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, 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 wait 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 shooting would take place. Never again could anyone in Lewiston or the state of Maine say, "It will never happen here."

Because it did.

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Why Now?

The inquiries are still ongoing. No new information or insight that can't be found with a quick Google search and if you are from Maine, you know everything in this book. I wasn't expecting a deep dive, but this felt exploitive and like the author was trying to make a quick buck off of this terrible tragedy. And I helped by wasting a credit. The saving grace is Kevin Pierce who is amazing as always. However, for me, having such a well known and respected narrator gave this a false sense of legitimacy to what is essential a 7 hour newspaper editorial.

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BOYCOTT THIS SERMON!

This is primarily a long-winded editorial regarding gun control laws in the US. I'm an avid pro-gun-control advocate, but I strongly object to the misleading title of this novel and subsequent reviews that fail to point out the true nature of what is billed as a "mystery" and "thriller" novel. Perhaps such subterfuge is the only way Robert Conlin can sell his material, but I don't want it at my unknowing expense.

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