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kleinbl00  ·  1377 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Police Warn Asian Americans To Be On Guard For More Random, Motiveless Attacks

I dunno man that looks like the system being successful to me. You read the criminal bulletin?

Drone pilot discharged for schizophrenia who goes off his meds, has a gun, calls the sheriff's office and complains that the "3 stones" attacked him while overseas, mentions he's got a gun that he won't use on himself but will absolutely use on others, cops put him under surveillance and wrap him up as soon as they have a justification.

It is understandably hard to use mental health as an excuse to abrogate someone's rights. They need to be a demonstrable threat to the health and safety of themselves or others before you can even put them in front of a magistrate. Take away their guns? Mmmmyeah that almost never happens before they use them.

I am right there with John Oliver and the rest of the media watchdogs about stochastic terrorism

But the terrible heinous broken system seems to have mostly worked with this one.