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Old 02-27-2014, 06:48 PM   #229
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This guy walked into a restaurant and shot to death an innocent man - he's just an ####### criminal and no one bays for his blood like this guy with Schizophrenia. I would argue that this man is more 'broken' than Vince Li. Granted he didn't cut the head of a sleeping passenger but it's the shock value of the crime that repulses people.

http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/03/29...ilty-of-murder

That being said - this guy should have to prove he's taking his medication every day for the rest of his life and if for some reason he can't - he goes back to the hospital immediately.

I should add that I used to work with the mentally ill so maybe I'm biased - it's heartbreaking to see good honest people morph into complete paranoid delusional 'monsters' and prefer to live that way rather than the dulling 'fighting through cobwebs' feeling and excessive drooling they experience on their meds. I think I mentioned in this thread last year that I feel blaming a schizophrenic for his actions is like blaming an epileptic for having a seizure - but you should most definitely blame them for their actions if they knowingly go OFF their medications.

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