Everyone is still reeling after hearing about the horrific murder on a Greyhound bus yesterday. Only someone who is totally insane could have committed such a ghastly murder on an innocent man he didn't even know.
There's talk of using metal detectors to screen bus riders, as though that could have stopped this maniac from committing murder. We literally can never have 100% protection from the insane, and I include suicide bombers in that category.
We, the public, can't live our lives in fear of the select few whose aim in life is to cause harm. What happened on that bus in Manitoba has never happened anywhere before and will probably never happen like that again. But it will happen somewhere else because there are too many criminally insane people allowed to walk our streets freely. It's their right, don't you know.
I don't believe it will happen in my lifetime but some time in the future the powers that be will see the wisdom in making our society a safe one for us. Child predators won't be given a second chance to destroy a young life and the insane will be kept separate from an unsuspecting society at large.
Do we think there were no warning signs that the man who carried out this vicious murder had mental problems which made him unfit to walk freely among us? Never in a million years. What protected him (and not his victim) were laws giving civil rights to all, regardless of the fact there was a good chance he'd hurt someone.
There is no shame heaped on the murderer because he was obviously mentally incapable of controlling himself but the legal system which neglectfully allowed him out in public has failed us completely.
All of our ravings and angry complaints will not bring the 22 year old man back to life. We can only hope our legal system will tighten the reins on people who are too dangerous to wander freely.
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