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To: Valpal1

I’d agree with that to a point. However the answer isn’t to lock everyone up and shooting someone solely because they are suicidal is not right.


40 posted on 06/16/2009 12:20:10 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

She wasn’t shot because she was suicidal (paranoid schizphrenics are rarely suicidal), she was shot because she was advancing on an officer with a knife, making herself a threat to him and the other officers.

This is what happens when law enforcement intersects with the violently mentally ill population, somebody dies. This time it was the mentally ill person.

The problem is that the dangerously mentally ill cannot be locked up until after they have assaulted or killed someone.

Liberalism kills in many ways.


46 posted on 06/16/2009 12:33:00 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Always be prepared to make that difference.)
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To: driftdiver
shooting someone solely because they are suicidal is not right.

Is that why she was shot? She was getting ready to take her own life?
51 posted on 06/16/2009 12:42:08 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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