Danny I read somewhere a few years ago that 100 years ago we had 1 mental hospital room for every 1000 people and now it’s 1 per 100,000. Don’t quote me on that but pretty sure it was close to that. There is to much reliance on meds now in my opinion. Give them a script and send them out the door. Nobody bothers to make sure the meds get taken. We’ve made great advances like you stated but some folks just need locked up.

You can haul people to the mental hospitals and they will be out in 3 days often, heck some might beat you home rarely do they stay more then 3 days. It takes longer to get one admitted then it takes to drive them to the hospital and back at the far end of the State. A person that had issues the night before might be accepted later in the next day. Even after the hours it takes to get someone committed they make you wait another half hour to a hours before they let you leave.

They will try to refuse them if they are violent without a court order most likely because of the need for a cell to keep them in while there. You walk in with a murder suspect you have 20 staff there for the intake process.

Movie theatres are like shooting fish in a barrel. I don't go to one un-armed. Although it sounds like these poor kids didn't have a chance either way.

Most of them needed treated with a belt when they were young. There are crazy people, always have been always will be. But not learning consequences and to mind your manners and not hurt other people when you are young is a fault of the parents.

You might have saved the taxpayers some money had you been there. This will take a year or so winding its way through the court and we'll wind up feeding him for the next fifty years. That's not justice.

The parents play these games

I think adult "gamers" are weird, but whatever--most people think what I do for fun is weird.