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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would change.org be the correct vehicle for petitioning Bowser and Norton and her pals in Congress?[/quote]

Petitioning them for what?

Making murder double-illegal?

What could've prevented this?   Answer: nothing.

You can't go around locking up mentally ill people because you're scared of them, or think they *might* do something one day, but so far haven't.

Until people prove themselves a danger, we cannot as a society punish or confine them. We just can't.

Sometimes the first time they prove they're a danger, it's something like yesterday. That's unfortunate. But it's a rarity, not the rule. Most of the time they start with less serious things, and we need to identify and intervene rapidly when these people with these traits present themselves. But you simply cannot jail people preemptively.

Personally, I'd like to see every republican and self identified conservative confined to prison camps or exiled somewhere or frankly just disposed of. But I'm a minority opinion holder in that regard (at least for now). And I have to respect the views of those who profess that we should maintain a more civil discourse on this, for as long as the dominant opinion is that way. Same with how we handle the mentally ill, ironically.

We can't just lock them up. It's wrong. It costs us our humanity if we do that. It allows the worse side of our nature to win, and we can't do that. [/quote]
You personally would like to see the half of all voters who disagree with your liberal policies sent to prison? That's some nice, non-devivise attitude right there.[/quote]

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