pendennis wrote:
While this cretin wasn't necessarily bat-shit crazy, he was suffering likely from depression, according to his father, but wouldn't get any help.
But, to your point, yes, we can legislate against crazy, but any law(s) restricting the "rights" of "crazy" individuals would likely be struck down as unconstitutional in Liberal courts, with the ACLU leading the fight.
There aren't enough mental professionals to handle the numbers of mentally ill folks, and the medical community at large (read general practitioners/family doctors) just isn't schooled on treating those folks.
And to get a person who will harm him/herself or others, committed involuntarily, will require more courts and judges to handle the number of cases which arise daily. And it's likely his father didn't have the financial means to bankroll an attorney, one way or the other.
As to the murderer, he was originally charged with a felony, which upon conviction, would keep him from legally purchasing a firearm, was pled down to a misdemeanor, which doesn't go into the NCIC data base.
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My point was all the gun, hammer, knife, automobile, pressure cooker, fertilizer or fire starting device legislation is not going to prevent a mentally I’ll individual intent on committing such atrocities.