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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As if the story couldn’t get any worse apparently when they caught him, before they even mentioned what he was being charged with he said something about “stabbing a little girl.” Martinez was like 5 feet tall and 100 pounds. He may have thought she was a kid.[/quote]

Martinez (and everyone else in the area) should have gone jogging with pepper spray in her hand, ready to go.

I cannot see any other way to save yourself if a crazy guy attacks you with a knive.[/quote]

A handgun is wayyyyyy more effective than pepper spray [/quote]

This woman was attacked by someone with violent tendencies, high, and likely an unmedicated, undiagnosed, untreated schizophrenic.

She did not die because she wasn’t carrying pepper spray or a gun.  It was truly a random, senseless act.

We have no national health care, no efficient way to get people like the perpetrator into appropriate treatment.  Prisons are filled with severely mentally ill people and a severely medically ill people as well as an aging population.  Congress cares about winning elections and making money for themselves.  No one in power really cares about why these tragedies happen or how to prevent them.

My heart breaks for her family.  She did not deserve to die.  [/quote]

Some of what you say is true, until you get grandiose and expressive of helplessness because "the problem's too big". Actually, this guy had repeated encounters with a DC criminal justice system that is notoriously inept at dealing with youth offenders and unwilling to make changes (see previous wash post exposes on our "youth rehabilitation act".). Next, he apparently was receiving psychiatric treatment and advice, and then our own DA office petitioned for his release. So, in my mind, not only does this problem fall at the hands of our very own DC criminal justice system - but it is reformable if our elected officials care to examine what went wrong here and legislate change. Why don't we deal in facts and make improvements?[/quote]

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