WORD SALAD: for 12 May 2017 GUN SHOW’S IN LEWISTON and AUBURN, MAINE .

The recent increase in gun violence; is, troubling for me as Lewiston and Auburn, Maine combined gun discharges is a total of six (6) within a five (5) week period.

I have been in contact with a number of city street people (s); and, they have advised me that the situation is due to girlfriends, muggings; and, drug dealers fighting to keep their prostitutes from changing their dealer.

The areas that are involved in the confrontations with guns firings; are, in the vicinity of Pine Street and Pierce Street, Upper Pine Street to Sabuttus Street, Walnut Street and Prince Street, and Pierce Street and Birch Street in Lewiston, Maine with one on Center Street, Auburn, Maine where two individuals went to hospitals.