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uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
5. If that grace was shown to Muslim people maybe, it hasn't. Mentally ill is a privilege shown to ...
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 09:53 AM
Mar 2021

... white people by the M$M mostly for something that would be religious terrorism or criminal acts if the person wasn't white.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
6. Short answer:YUP.
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 10:34 AM
Mar 2021

Long answer: A person may be "mentally unfit" but what are their circumstances? Have
they been diagnosed and placed in treatment and are they compliant with that treatment? If not then why not?

In the end incarceration in a secure mental health facility removes this person from being a threat to society just as their incarceration in a secure prison does.

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
7. What person who goes on a killing spree
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 11:24 AM
Mar 2021

does not have mental problems? The question legally is "does he know the difference between right and wrong?"

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
8. I didn't know this
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 11:26 AM
Mar 2021

but I believe the targets were women.

And I don't mean to imply that the Asian people were not victims of a hate crime as well.

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
4. K&R, but nah ... the Christianist terrorist needs to have a 2343 page manifesto declaring his hatred
Mon Mar 22, 2021, 09:50 AM
Mar 2021

... for Asian people along with support the KKK and Trump for Wray and some others to declare this guys terrorism a hate crime

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