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Originally Posted by jayswin
I know a lot of you older guys love to throw out the too bad so sad, tough love stuff that reads out of the 20th century, but it's really important, imo, to take anything your throwing out the tough stance on and replace "some ****ing guy I don't know" with you or your family members and revisit it from that perspective.
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Come on man, quit throwing Age around like this, frankly it doesn't make you cool.
The bottom line is whether or not he is criminally responsible is the question, and the answer is going to be is he a threat to come back into society at any point.
The one side benefit I guess in terms of the not criminally responsible is that the Judge call still put him away on an unlimited sentence.
Reading this whole heart breaking story, its pretty clear that something was wrong and getting worse, but the question isn't whether he is wacked out crazy and how realistic the justification is, but did he realize what he was doing was wrong, that's the question that I believe that has to be answered in a case like this.
Just reading some of the testimony in the trial and the interviews with the police when he was caught, he realized that what he was doing wasn't right, but necessary, that's my two cents.
I don't know if sending him to prison is going to do anything to save him, it will probably provide more of a sense of justice and closure to the family of the victims.
The big fear for these families is probably if he's not found responsible and still sent away for treatment, and the family is going to be subjected to hearing about every application for release.