No, I think most people realize anyone can be violent or have potential mental illness that might make them violent. However when someone proves that they are violent or have mental illness that makes them hurt people then it is a different situation.
I have no problem with the finding of NCR, and it's great that his illness has been treated. I think it is awesome in our progressive society that we can work to correct the underlying illness and give him back many freedoms. That doesn't change the fact that he has proven, beyond any doubt, that without medication he can be terribly violent. The limitation to his freedom that monitoring his medication consumption incurs is reasonable in the context of protecting the safety of the rest of society in the event he were to stop taking his meds.
Society is full of limits to all our freedoms in order to not infringe on others rights. Ensuring he stays on the medication is not an undue infringement of his rights based on his history, IMO of course.
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