Sure, we could “start by agreeing there’s a legitimate need.” We could just as easily agree it’d be nice to provide a free car for everyone. But unless you’re Oprah, you’d better back up your free car rhetoric with something useful. Same with the MH fix.
This shit is hard. It’s why it hasn’t been solved already. Me, I’m NOT convinced a MH solution that’s constitutional would be effective, nor that an effective MH solution would be constitutional. Feel free to disagree, but come up with some specifics while you’re at it.
It's also worth noting that when Oprah gave away those cars, they still weren't truly free..... lol. And much like oprahs cars, there's always a cost with this stuff, somewhere. I think the obvious problem is if scrutiny in MH increased on weird people, and it resulted in an easier PP status, I think that's going to turn into a self-blocking prophecy; EG, "oh the MH community is now more proactive about stopping weird f***os nao" but in turn on the back end you get people intentionally staying away from MH services for fear of some kind of punishment.
I think in this particular case there's also a weird "bridge" or decision point between "well this guy should have been prohibited by some MH thing" vs "this guy should have been prohibited for violating some kind of lawr".
I think it wouldn't have been difficult for the police to actually catch this POS breaking a law (and prosecute him for it) the thing is at the end of the day, one has to ask if that would have done
anything. . Say he killed someones dog and even if he got whacked with felony animal cruelty, whats he going to do, a couple of years? Then we get to pray that someone kills him in
prison, more or less. Then he gets out, wash rinse repeat, etc.
Of course if the school wasnt such a soft target, we'd likely be looking at the possibility of 1 great outcome (guy gets shot DRT before he can even attack) , a not so bad outcome (couple people get killed, bad guy still gets
smoked) , and a bad, but still less horrendous outcome politically (guy goes and smokes some adults at some other soft target instead, because the school has too much security or is perceived to have too much
security. )
-Mike