Maine Democrats Grill Mills Over Gun Control Veto, Ignoring Opponent’s Nazi Tattoo

The death head tattoo that Maine senatorial candidate Graham Platner had on his chest for years was a bit of a problem for him. After all, that particular type of skull and crossbones symbol isn’t one for pirates. It’s a symbol used by Nazis and their ilk. It’s called the “Totenkopf” and has been featured in pretty much every movie and video game featuring Nazis or neo-Nazis.

Platner said he didn’t know what it meant, which at least someone who knows him says is BS.

I bring this up not so much because of Platner in and of himself, but the fact that he still has supporters, and some of them opted to grill his opponent, Gov. Janet Mills, about her supposed failures, including her veto of a red flag bill.

Most of the national news surrounding the Maine Democratic Senate primary has zeroed in on candidate Graham Platner’s record—a tattoo he got while serving in the Marines and posts he wrote several years ago on Reddit.

But a video recording obtained by Drop Site News of a local Democratic group’s Zoom meeting last week with Platner’s main opponent, Gov. Janet Mills, brought to light discussions Maine voters are having not about the first-time candidate’s controversies—which have done little to damage his campaign, according to numerous polls—but about the record of the governor who’s run the state for the last six years.

For 30 minutes on March 19, members of the Hancock County Democrats grilled Mills about her history of vetoing significant pieces of legislation and opposing measures broadly supported by Mainers.

A former Democratic state representative, Mark Worth, asked Mills early in the question-and-answer session about her “record on tribal sovereignty, labor, and gun safety bills, such as your veto of the red flag law”—an apparent reference to Mills’ opposition to the red flag law that was passed by referendum in 2025, with 62% supporting the measure to make it easier for law enforcement to take away someone’s firearm if they pose a threat to themself or others.

Mills instead supported the state’s “yellow flag law,” which requires police to take a person into custody and obtain an assessment by a mental health professional before a gun can be taken away.

It should be noted that the push for a red flag law originated after the Lewiston shootings in 2023 that claimed 18 lives. The perpetrator of that atrocity had a long history of mental illness and displayed some alarming behavior before the shooting. What most people seem to miss is that he’d been evaluated by mental health professionals–people who had the power to request he be disarmed under the state’s “yellow flag” law and didn’t–thus telling us that the lack of a law wasn’t the problem.

Even so, I find it weirdly troubling that people are pissy about how Mills didn’t let them upgrade the state’s yellow flag law into a red flag measure, but they’re fine with the dude who had a Nazi tattoo and claimed he didn’t know what it was, despite his former political director saying explicitly that not only did he know, but as a military history buff, it’s impossible he couldn’t have known, even well after he got the tattoo.

That’s not a problem for them, but not being able to disarm people as easily as possible isn’t.

Now that I think about it–and I’m ashamed it took this long for me to actually think about it–it makes perfect damn sense they favor Platner.

After all, the guys who wore the Totenkopf were big fans of people being disarmed, too.

I mean, if they’re going to call everyone Nazis, it’s only fair to point out the consistency between the dude with the Nazi tattoo, their gripes about one of the less anti-gun Democratic governors in the nation, and what they wanted to happen.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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