No problem.
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Originally Posted by TennesseeGentleman
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I would be surprised if there were a single state, commonwealth or territory in which the legislature had provided no mechanism for dealing with them.
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I'm sure you are correct but are the mechanisms effective?
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Yes. The mechanism involves people with expertise and experience assessing the actual evidence. Where they conclude that the person is incompetent, that person loses a range of rights.
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Originally Posted by TennesseeGentleman
Isn't some behavior so bizarre that maybe that person who exhibits it shouldn't have a gun? We had a shooting last year here in TN at a Waffle House. The shooter had a prior history of running around naked in public screaming at and threatening people.
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Add alcohol and that sounds like college.
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Originally Posted by TennesseeGentleman
I agree the bar should be high to commit someone to an institution indefinitely and against their will but it seems in the Marjorie Stoneman case, Gabby Giffords and this Waffle House one most folks who knew of the shooter were not surprised when they committed their crimes.
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I don't think that's true. (I am not doubting that someone
said he wasn't surprised, but that measuring foresight in hindsight is accurate.) There is a lot of distance between believing that a person is likely to go on a mass murder spree on the one hand, and on the other hand telling a reporter after an event that one isn't surprised by it.
In which of those cases did someone petition a court to appoint a guardian
before the shooting?