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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Start identifying crazy people earlier will help. [/quote]

Identifying isn’t the issue. Treatment is. The cops know my neighbor has paranoid schizophrenia but it isn’t illegal to be mentally ill. They engage with him when he commits petty crimes or —more often— is himself the victim of crime (real or imagined), but they can’t lock him up and throw away the key to keep others safe because he might snap.[/quote]

With adequate red flag laws, they could at least impair his ability to get guns.  Probably both these guys had neighbors, family members, etc that knew they were very troubled (and likely even police knew), but both probably had legally purchased guns and ammunition.  I think California has a red flag law — I’ll be interested to see where this fell through the cracks.  I think the police aren’t using them enough and neighbors/coworkers/family often don’t want to rile the person up by being the one to file.  They are used most often by DV victims which is great but doesn’t stop these very unbalanced people that target random members of the community.[/quote]

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