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Psychiatrist warned campus police about Aurora shooter a month before mass murder
Hot Air ^ | April 5, 2013 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 04/05/2013 1:05:05 PM PDT by Malone LaVeigh

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21 posted on 04/05/2013 1:50:46 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: RobbyS

Good point.


22 posted on 04/05/2013 1:51:46 PM PDT by VR-21 (I'm weary of being lorded over by criminals and gilded degenerates.)
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To: Travis McGee; mickie
Photo above of the three American mass murderers....the eyes have it.

Leni

23 posted on 04/05/2013 1:52:41 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: colorado tanker
"Both Holmes and Ebel should not have been on the streets and the only thing that would have kept them from killing was getting them off the streets. And it was government screw-ups and failures to act that put them out there."

The survivors should sue them to the limits for letting this happen. Maybe a few of these lawsuits will change that behavior!!'

24 posted on 04/05/2013 1:59:04 PM PDT by LADY J (ues)
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To: Sherman Logan

It is a difficult problem. Heck, there ARE people who shouldn’t be walking the streets, and society once DID find a way to get them off the streets. I think everyone can agree that there are indeed people who shouldn’t be living at large in society.

The question is, where does one draw the line at “YOU can live in society” and “You CANNOT live in society”...

But, as another poster said, it is also true that giving the government powers of incarceration for mental status CAN (and did) end up with tyrannical states like the Soviet Union using it for their own ends.

We were taking people off the streets at one time in this country without being the Soviet Union, and while it is true that the conditions in many of those places were bad, it was also true that it likely wouldn’t be worse than what many of those people had on the street, except that someone else was paying for it.


25 posted on 04/05/2013 2:00:04 PM PDT by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: VR-21

Whitman had a brain tumor in the region that effects strong emotion. Received poor medical care and his problem went undiagnosed - we all know what happened next. The sad fact is that he was as much a victim as the people he killed.


26 posted on 04/05/2013 2:01:38 PM PDT by stormer
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To: MinuteGal

Yeah. They all look like Pelosi and THIS guy...

27 posted on 04/05/2013 2:02:14 PM PDT by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: LADY J
The Holmes victims are suing the theater, although that seems a long shot. I don't think there is any argument that CU owed them a duty. What I don't get is why CU didn't try to get a restraining order or mental health hold and evaluation. It was one of their own being threatened ferchrisake.

It sounds like the pizza driver's (Leon) family is hopping mad and I'm sure they are looking into a lawsuit. It's really sad that the Department of Corrections' screw-ups got their own leader killed in addition to Leon, who appears to have been murdered just to get his Domino's shirt and pizza box.

And please, I know, the people responsible for these murders are the murderers. I'm talking about failures to take preventive measures, not who is criminally responsible.

28 posted on 04/05/2013 2:10:04 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Sherman Logan
You make several good points, and I'm on more on the Libertarian view, as well. I do like the idea of a well-armed citizenry and the ability to carry virtually anywhere as a deterrent, preventive, or mitigation for the nuts.
29 posted on 04/05/2013 2:11:33 PM PDT by twister881
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To: Sherman Logan

Death threats are enough to do an investigation. They wouldn’t have had to look far to see what he was buying or what he was hiding in his apartment.


30 posted on 04/05/2013 2:16:09 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

Why would campus police even have any jurisdiction here? It seems like the equivalent of reporting a rape at work to the security at the front desk.. Sure, it might be a nice thing to do, but it wouldn’t replace going to the real authorities.

Are colleges independent nations, like Indian tribes—or what?


31 posted on 04/05/2013 2:22:32 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Everybody knows that college cops are more like mall security than anything else.

Their prime incentive, with no doubt honorable exceptions, is to minimize the reported or investigated “crime rate” on campus.

A campus cop who starts making a lot of waves is likely to scare off students and parents and therefore have a short career.


32 posted on 04/05/2013 2:35:21 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: rlmorel
Heck, there ARE people who shouldn’t be walking the streets, and society once DID find a way to get them off the streets. I think everyone can agree that there are indeed people who shouldn’t be living at large in society.

Quite right.

But in the final analysis some human must be given the power to make that decision, and in our society, for better or worse, we have this whole bit about due process.

Some doctor's hunch or opinion is at best problematic as a way of deciding who gets locked up for years.

33 posted on 04/05/2013 2:37:59 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Travis McGee

Travis, you forgot to include a mug shot of a certain mulatto Marxist
Homo I know!


34 posted on 04/05/2013 2:45:11 PM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Doc Savage
He is still on the "pending" list.

This 5 minute video mentions how and why.


35 posted on 04/05/2013 3:13:46 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Sherman Logan

Bullseye.


36 posted on 04/05/2013 3:14:22 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

The numbers for Stalin are probably underestimating significantly.


37 posted on 04/05/2013 3:17:04 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Sherman Logan

Too often they don’t intervene because they haven’t been trained how to intervene, or given the authority or the discretion. Then there is the question of WHO. Who made the decision not to act. The doctor, the cop, or someone higher?


38 posted on 04/05/2013 3:39:46 PM PDT by RobbyS
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To: Sherman Logan

I don’t think we disagree much.

I always like to take a situation like this and drive a stake in both ends, then get people to speculate on where the line in the middle goes.

We have all seen people that there is 100% no doubt they should be institutionalized.

And then we can all look at people and say 100% they shouldn’t.

All the contention comes around with that gray area, and where you divide the issue into one or the other.


39 posted on 04/05/2013 4:51:20 PM PDT by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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