“A man with a long record of mental health issues ....”. Sure hear THAT a lot these days.
Who was termed “crazy” in the former simplified vernacular. We can’t say that no mo’.
Yeah, it’s fun to make jokes, “nice dress” and all, but the truth is, this guy ain’t very funny.
The reason we laugh (in part) I think is a kind of gallows humor, it is more we’re “laughing” at the legislatures and judiciary and others who have literally forced crazy people who cannot take care of themselves on the general public. They’ve mainstreamed mental illness, as a kind of civil right. Further, they’ve forced the cops to play Therapist, something they are not trained to do. The leftist answer to this? Naturally, it’s to give therapists guns, I guess. What could go wrong?
This guy could have just as easily killed a bunch of people. Like it or not, that’s why society used to keep unfortunate, tragic individuals like this locked up. For his own good, and society.
I was interested in the article to see that he ran an end loader “into his own house.” How did he get his “own house”?
It used to be axiomatic that “crazy people” were by definition unable to care for themselves - and by law, or at least medical custom, were not allowed to enter into binding contracts. Because ... they are nuts. They can’t take care of themselves. They are prone to being taken advantage of too. Things like ... owning a house. Or Voting. Guess what the leftists have done ... again.
It seems like the more I study history, it becomes clear that nobody learns from history. America is in a stage of “forgetting” a great many things that younger generations will have to re-learn at great expense, and “WTF were you thinking!?”
You are so right. My kids are in their 30’s and think I’m a little nuts with
“conspiracy theories”. They are going to have to find out for themselves.