I think what sometimes happens is that people of all stripes get caught between a rock and a hard place. It's a common theme in today's society for everything to be race related and than other's think race doesn't play any role in anything. Something in the middle probably is more accurate.
The issue with people with mental health and addiction issues is that really do need help. A lot of the times they aren't in a position to be making decisions for their own best interest and sometimes I think society needs to do that for them for the better of everybody.
On the flip side of though, how much do innocent people who become victimized by these people put up with? At which stage does a politician go from worrying about victims and the general public to the others who are also suffering issues as well?
In the news story it says that someone was assaulted with a weapon, that needs to be addressed. A huge portion of crimes both violent and non violent are caused by people who have mental health and addiction issues, this doesn't even address some of the scarier incidents that aren't really crime related. People need help and people also need to be held to account for their actions too.
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