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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The point I'm trying to make here is only that you cant build a criminal justice system to prevent what is basically a one time event, there is nothing remarkable about this guy at all, he got 4 years or so for a drunken assault, that's a pretty long sentence for an event that doesnt appear to have been much more than a drunken brawl and a fight with the cop that was trying to arrest him, if the parole board had not let him out in 2021 he'd still be out now having finished his sentence, if he had been picked up straight away in 2021 when he absconded he probably still be out of jail now, I'm pretty certain short of locking up every angry addicted young man at 18 for life there really isnt much we can do or expect the system to do to absolutely prevent a tragedy like this, we have a system that does a pretty good job, I'm not sure we can ask for more than that
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There's a giant leap from his previous activity to this mass murder.
He struck another criminal using a gun as a blunt object and, as you say, he an intoxication induced brawl with his spouse and the cops. The 4 years would be pretty common for actually hitting a police officer in the face multiple times. It sounds like he was ripped out of his mind when he did that, but that's not going to get you off the hook.
There's nothing in there to indicate he would go a mass murder spree with a machete. There also seems to be something more to the story, as he, initially anyways, had an accomplice in his brother. This doesn't fit with his previous MO of intoxication induced rage incidents. This was likely something planned, with a motive. The incident happened in a small community, so all the victims were likely known to the Sanderson brothers.