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In reply to the discussion: A proposal for dealing with the potentially dangerous mentally ill [View all]Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)I think anybody willing to murder another person has mental issues.
A more accurate response is the number of murders commited by the mentally disturbed like the VA, AZ, CO & CT shootings is a very small number compared to the overall murder rate, however what happened in the VA, AZ, CO & CT shootings has a far, far higher impact then the more "regular" kinds of murder that happen every day across the country.
I am not looking at mental illness as a whole, merely the very, very small subset that express a desire to hurt themselves or others.
As for determining, in advance, who is going to commit a crime, when they have not expressed a desire to do so, I'll leave that for you to determine how to manage that, but that is a very slippery slope you just stepped on.