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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in the area and were told the suspect has tin foil covering his windows. Apparently the house was up for sale a few years ago but he also chased off potential buyers with a knife. [/quote]

How the heck can someone’s mental health issues/danger to society be so obvious and yet we do nothing? Honestly this incident was a failure to this man as much as the surrounding neighbors. He clearly had paranoid delusions and was likely psychotic. Would have been better to stabilize him with medical treatment than deal with this fallout.[/quote]

How do you propose to force him to take medication? I feel for his family. Sad, but since he is clearly violent, if he won't help himself by taking medication, we are better off without him.[/quote]

Oh I know there isn’t much that can be done under our current lack of legal authority for mental health support. But as a society it’s nuts that we can’t involuntarily commit people like this. The guy was ranting his delusions online and threatening people. And as a side note, I wonder what would happen if a non-mentally ill person was making threats online? Aren’t there some sort of laws against this?

We need to bring back institutions and make it easier to get people help/keep others safe.[/quote]

Agree there should be institutions.

The reason you "can't just report anyone" is that there would be too many mentally instable people trying to report what they deem to be "mentally instable people". You don't want that, especially where there are so many strivers - insecure, competitive, won't stay in their own lane types. It would be arbitrary chaos.[/quote]

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