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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]THIS IS ALL YOU NEED TO READ ABOUT THIS CASE!
Daniel Penny is a FLIPPING AMERICAN HERO! He stepped up to stop this monster before he could kill anyone on the train and now he is being attacked. What if he sat there and let this freak show kill someone?? He was out of his mind! Insane! Hell no. And I quote this from a news article:

“Neely was homeless, schizophrenic and had a record of 40 arrests that included punching a 67-year-old woman in the face.

On May 1, he was screaming that he wanted to 'kill a motherf****r' to get a ticket to jail where he'd receive meals.

Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old Marine veteran, stepped in and put him in a chokehold. Neely died at the scene.”[/quote]

So people who are mentally ill should be killed? Keep in mind that Penny didn't know Neely's mental health history. We don't condone vigilantes in the US. [/quote]

Well if the government refuses to put them in humane institutions which they cannot leave what are people to do?[/quote]

This gets to the crux of the problem.

Supreme Court decisions in the 70s and 80s make it extremely difficult for jurisdictions to involuntarily commit mental ill individuals for anything other than short stretches of time. Individual liberty is paramount. This is a major hurdle to getting people like Neely off the street. This is why prisons act as the de facto asylum - the state needs to wait for them to commit a crime to move them permanently off the street.

Secondly, is cost. It’s exorbitant and Americans are growing more and more anti-tax. You want to move to a place with no income taxes? You’ll find mental health services and facilities to basically be nil. No one wants to pay for it, particularly among the Taxes Are Theft crowd. [/quote]

Well at least let’s do it in places like CA where the taxes are through the roof [/quote]

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