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Originally Posted by HOOT
Why whats the difference? Both can't be controlled without help...both parties didn't mean to kill the person.
It may be a bad example but my point still stands. It's a joke and he should be locked up for life prison or hospital, I would even let him choose 
How do you think the friends and family feel about this? Is it fair to them because some guy has issues that he is allowed to kill people at will and just walk out once he's all better?
They will NEVER get to see that person again, yet this guy gets to live a cushy life in a hospital and once "fixed" is free to go on his way. How is that fair? How is that justice?
I just don't know why everyone is so worried about some murder that kill an innocent person sleeping on a freakin' bus. I guess I just don't get it. |
There is a steep difference in the degree of impairment between schizophrenia and anger issues imo. We all may feel like tearing the arms off of somebody in a starbucks lineup from time to time but we are within the realm of sanity enough to know that actually following through is unacceptable.
I'm not actually saying that I think he should be released from a hospital, but I think that's where he needs to be. I will admit that I'm no expert on the Canadian prison system, but I imagine that it is not suited for somebody of his degree of illness. I realize that many want nothing more for him to be locked behind bars, shived, beaten and raped in the shower on a daily basis for this, but that's not going to help him. Why help himat all? Because one day he is going to get out. Like it or lump it, the justice system will see this guy released and if you ask me when it happens I'd rather he have been medicated and given therapy instead of abused every day.
I obviously can't imagine what his friends and family are going through. I do know that they are campaigning to have offenders found not criminally responsible to do time in prison. For reasons noted above I respectfully disagree.
It's not ok what this guy did, but despite the fact you put the word "fixed" in quotation marks, this is one instance where he might actually be able to be rehabilitated. Schizophrenia is a disease that can be brought under control.
I assure you I'm not the stero-typical left leaner that sits around concerned about the perpetrator. My main focus in all of this is that he gets the proper rehabilitation. Perhaps this means hospitalization for life, perhaps it does not.