I don’t mean to minimize criminality. There is a lot of it and most of it has little to do with CTE or TBI’s or unseen wounds from a warzone.
Narcotics is the primary driver of crime and there is very good science showing that prolonged narcotics use can also damage the brain and cause people to do things they would be unlikely to do otherwise, but as you say - some people are just bad.
We have a very small percentage of Americans responsible for the vast majority of violent crime. Regardless of the causes if we incarcerated them our nation would be much better for it!
My only point was to say that things like this, which goes far beyond what we think of as “crime”, are complex. It certainly does not mean we should let people like this go or put them on the street, but it would behoove us to study the problem more and try and mitigate it whenever possible so we don’t have nightmares like this (for everybody - them and us) walking among us.
Right? I agree with everything you’re saying. However, to get too in-depth about, for example, the resources Military vets have and why they are either inadequate or not being appropriately administered, might engender needless argument. Especially if the argument was with someone with as little information as me.
Love and understanding are often doled out to those who least deserve them.