Robert Card is now officially a suspect.
Liam Kent, a Maine resident who is familiar with Robert Card, the person of interest in the Lewiston shootings, said that Card and his family are “gun fanatics.” He also went on to claim that people around town knew to “stay away” from the family.
I’ve heard that he’d recently lost a job and a girlfriend. The two locations were places they would go together. He may have been looking for her, just lashing out, or both. So it’s entirely possible that his primary motivations were not political.
Clearly, being mentally unstable can cause you to believe very weird things. When those weird things are even tacitly approved of by people, it’s a lot easier to start believing them, and slide down that rabbit hole. Extremist politics is one of those kind of things.