Maine Mass Shooting

The Maine Information and Analysis Center, which serves as a database for law enforcement, sent out a message containing information about Card, according to NBC. The bulletin stated that Card is a firearms instructor, and that intelligence suggests he is a member Army Reserve.

It also noted that Card "recently reported mental health issues to include hearing voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard Base in Saco, ME."

White House officials said that once news of the shooting broke, President Joe Biden abruptly left a dinner with the prime minister of Australia in order to contact the state's governor, Janet Mills, as well as its senators and representatives. In a statement Thrusday, Biden mourned the lived lost while calling for national gun control legislation.

“Today, in the wake of yet another tragedy, I urge Republican lawmakers in Congress to fulfill their duty to protect the American people," he said. "Work with us to pass a bill banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, to enact universal background checks, to require safe storage of guns, and end immunity from liability for gun manufacturers. This is the very least we owe every American who will now bear the scars — physical and mental — of this latest attack.”