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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Mathgod, are you aware of anyone who killed due to a schizophrenic psychotic episode who went on to have another schizophrenic psychotic episode resulting in another death in Canada after no longer being deemed a significant threat?
I keep asking this to people who are acting like it's statistically likely that he will kill again, but as far as I can tell the next time this happens will be the first such instance in Canada. If anything, your arguments are alleviating any fear I did have because they simply aren't backed by any real world information.
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That's because the sample size is too small to draw any conclusions. The first case has yet to happen but that doesn't mean we have any indication of when it will happen or how long it will be before it happens.
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Originally Posted by DionTheDman
Also, your personal experiences with the mental health system are irrelevant.
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No they aren't.
Just because the experts say that this man poses no significant risk to the public, doesn't necessarily mean that he actually poses no significant risk to the public. I'm skeptical that the mental health experts actually hold the level of expertise on the subject that they purportedly hold.
The only other thing I'm going to say on this topic is that I sincerely hope you are right and this man does not (as the result of his schizophrenia or otherwise) attack anyone for the rest of his life. If another attack happens there are going to be a lot of very ticked off people, myself included.