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Originally Posted by donquixote99
Appreciate the benefit of your experience here, Barbara.
My own thinking is OK, some number of people will be wrongly caught up in coercive mental health commitment if we relax safeguards. That is bad. OTOH, it's also very bad to be shot dead in a nightclub. As long as we're smart and careful and able to keep the number of wrong commitments down to "dozens," I think the trade-off worth it.
And certainly when there's more doubt we do things short of commitment, just like visit people, watch them, try to be helpful on a voluntary basis.
And very certainly, the threshold for taking someone's guns, at least temporarily, should be quite low.
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I hear what you are saying and do not necessarily disagree.
But.... the person wrongly caught up in the system suffers too. That record follows them, the stigma haunts them. And it is way to easy for someone who has a beef with another to make the accusation that starts things in motion.
The system is broke in many ways. No easy answers.
I think the only way to begin is to consider the common denominator in every single mass shooting. And that could be a starting point.