Once violently insane, always violently insane. Imho, of course.
I can remember reading an interview with Alana Kainz (Brian Smith’s widow) and she attended the release hearing/discussion at the facility in Penetanguishine, Ontario (where Canadian versions of John Hinckley Jrs are kept).
She said (and I found this both very heartbreaking and angering to read about) that the hearing lasted about one to two hours and her late husband’s name was mentioned maybe once or twice at the most and only at about the start of the whole thing. As if this guy just had one too many at the local pub and then proceeded to run down someone’s dog, instead of the horrible, senseless thing he actually did.