Yes, the timing is quite damned. But, if we don't discuss it, how do we prevent knee jerk reactions to the recent blow?

I've sat around a table of mental health professionals before - and had a very similar conversation when a judge asked for us to certify that a certain person would never hurt anyone if released to a supervised group home. That person had never hurt anyone or himself in the past, and had never been in legal hot water. Yet, no one can say for sure WHAT any other person will do, and that is the root of the matter.

It is true that this person I speak of is still incarcertated in the mental health system, having never committed any crime other than being a sexual deviant in his fantasies. (One who has never acted out against anyone in relation to that deviancy.)

It is a fact that there's a big trend to release certain people - mainly pedophiles - to the mental health system AFTER their legal imprisonment for any crime is over. Once they get in the mental health system, they can be kept there indefinitely.

And what of the move to force psychoactive medication on people and children against their will or that of their parents? Should that power of govt. be expanded? (Please, NO!)

If you can't predict violence with accuracy, how are you going to prevent it? Do we just take away more rights from a growing slices of population judged to be "weird?" Who is judging?

This is insane in itself! All this - he had signs - is retrospect. We might as well be looking at astrology charts.

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