The report by the Service’s Threat Assessment Center pored over 28 shootings that killed almost 150 and injured hundreds of others in schools, churches and places of business. It found that more than 75 percent of the perpetrators exhibited unusual advance behavior or communications that raised suspicions among others.As COTTonLINE has repeatedly observed, when our nation stopped warehousing mental patients we agreed perforce for them to live among us. Some of them are extremely dangerous and many more swell our homeless population and defecate in our streets.
It also found that before the shootings, two-thirds of suspects (64 percent) displayed signs of mental illness such as paranoia and delusions. And in a quarter of the cases the suspects had been hospitalized or under treatment with psychiatric drugs before the deadly assaults. Yet, they remained at large.
We know how to reduce the problem, but lack the will. The Swiss don't let this happen in their tidy country, why should we?
