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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
That's my point. our laws are dumb and soft, in the end they both still killed people and not by an accident, shooting a gun or stabbing people had the same ending.
James Holmes - diagnosed with severe schizophrenia
Court - tough break, hope meds help you... 3500 years in jail for mass murder.
de Grood - diagnosed with severe schizophrenia
Court - poor thing, mass murder be damned, lets get you help so you can rejoin society.
If this happened 60 years earlier he would have been hanged in Fort Saskatchewan and the family's would have had closure, now 9 years later they are tortured every day with him not being locked up.
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It's about separating oneself from the visceral emotional reactions around injustice and vengeance and objectively recognizing the difference between a person committing a heinous crime in a sane state versus something unfortunate but on a similar level of freak misfortune as getting plowed off the road by a semi in poor conditions. The stars aligned in an awful way for those victims. But you have to differentiate between two very different things.
And thank god we've progressed since then.
De Grood should be consistently monitored and restricted for the public's safety, but from what i recall of the assessments of him, this isn't a case like others where there was actually criminal responsibility determined and they were given a sentence that didn't add up to the crimes.
Some of you and your lines of thinking frankly frighten me, and I'm glad you don't have any say on these matters.