Judges Need To Be Held Accountable For Their Decisions
Police shot and killed Noemi Guzman after she kidnapped a 3 year old boy, and slashed him with a knife.
The problem here is Guzman had a long history of mental illness and violence. She assaulted a woman in 2018, was given 2 years probation and was released after 5 months.
In 2024, she stabbed her father, doused him with a flammable liquid and tried setting him on fire. She then ran into a church, attacking a priest with a knife, and pepper sprayed police before being taken into custody. She was charged with 4 felonies, but the judge ruled she was not responsible due to insanity.
Unfortunately, she was released and ordered to remain on medication and continue seeing a psychiatrist. A brilliant decision as nutcases frequently stop taking the meds. You could easily predict something horrible like this was bound to happen.
Now she's dead. The boy has a nasty physical scar, and likely psychological trauma.
Our news is filled with stories of violent, crazy people being released again and again, only to commit another heinous crime.
What was Einstein's definition of insanity?
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@DogMan Libs love to blame this on Reagan for defending govt run mental institutions. But the truth is the ACLU advocated against involuntary commitment, emphasizing that individuals should not be confined to mental institutions without due process, especially if they are not dangerous and can live safely in freedom. The Supreme Court's ruling in O'Connor v. Donaldson, established that non-dangerous individuals cannot be constitutionally confined against their will. So...if a judge decides that someone who is mentally ill is not a threat, they can't held against their will...they're back on the street. This is where the homeless problem began.
Once the people inside the institutions were free to leave, they did. There was no justification to maintain the funding, so Reagan cut it.
@BizSuitStacy Yeah true, but there is plenty of blame to pass around. It was easier for politicians to put them on the streets and wash their hands of the problem. It would take a bold politician to start building facilities. They would need a catchy name for them. No one would go for Insane Asylum 🤣
Democrats are good at naming things like that. I'm sure they could come with something catchy.
@BizSuitStacy @DogMan I can almost PICTURE politicians weighing the levels of evil they would release upon us against the COST of maintaining mental institutions for the hundreds of thousands who NEED them. I can almost see their little minds "clicking" and arriving at the conclusion that death by cop would be a very neat solution indeed.
@Barefooter25 the liberal solution to everything is beg for money, implement the "solution," watch as it fails and then beg for even more money claiming they didn't do enough the first time, rinse and repeat.
@Barefooter25 Yes, and back in the 70's guns were everywhere. Almost every home had accessable guns and ammo. Trucks in the school parking lot had rifles, shot guns and pistols in them. We all knew how to use them, but we never had mass shootings.
Yes there are a lot more guns now, but there are far fewer households with guns now, than back in the 70's. But some people still blame "The Evil Guns"
Approximately 36% of U.S. households had at least one firearm in 2025. reflecting a long-term decline from historical highs of nearly 50.9% in 1980.
