Maine is an Outlier; the Lewiston Shooting was an Anomaly

   Not every state that has permissive gun laws has a lot of mass shootings. Not every state where nearly half the households have guns has a lot of mass shootings. Take Maine, where the latest mass shootings took place; it is an exception.
   You can try to figure it out by noting folks in Maine use their guns for hunting and recreation. You can bring up the fact Maine is a state dominated by Democrats. Still, that doesn't overturn the norm that states with lax gun laws and high gun ownership don't normally escape mass shootings. Yet, there it is, before the Lewiston shootings, there wasn't even a history of mass shootings in Maine. It's a state with a low gun homicide rate. Go figure, as they say.