steveintoronto
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What?
No offence, mate, but you just threw together a pile of tenuously related things and made some grand generalisation out of the soup.
That being said, I get what you're saying. That was just some weirdly poetic way of saying it.
I was waiting for that. It's called 'intuition' and it keeps you alive.
Why do you think dogs pick up on it so readily? Ever have a dog...a smart one? They sense gyros wobbling on their axes from a block away. And usually start barking or growling. They'll pick-up angry drunks long before you do. For good reason.
Trust your sixth sense. Just react accordingly though, use it as an alarm to avoid, not react, as there is the chance of getting it wrong.
This is a very important point. Where do you draw the line of accountability for actions?
Given the opportunity, I'd love to beat him with a baseball bat about the head. Trouble is, I'd have to wait in line to do it.
I'm astounded by the degree of compassion and forgiveness of some after suffering horrific tragedies of loved ones being the victims of such people. I'm now at a loss for further words, but what I'm saying has to be examined.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4348575/toronto-gunman-mental-health-family/
And here's the point already being examined:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4274935/canadian-isis-plot-new-york/
And handgun availability besides, we're back onto the 'what was known as to the danger and when was it first flagged?' line of discourse.
Late Edit: Christie (Crusty) Blatchford has an incredibly sensitive and nuanced take on this, She's had a couple of excellent articles on this last few days:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ch...-shooting-its-complicated?video_autoplay=true
And from TorStar:
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...r-was-afraid-he-was-going-to-hurt-people.htmlDanforth shooter ‘was afraid he was going to hurt people’
By WENDY GILLISCrime Reporter
Wed., July 25, 2018
As a student at Victoria Park Collegiate Institute, Faisal Hussain was a “very disturbed” young man who spoke “a lot about the pain he was in and the voices that he heard,” says the former head of special education at the high school.
Enrolled in Focus on Success, a separate program for at-risk students, the skinny teen frequently voiced a fear he might hurt someone, and once repeatedly cut into his face with a pencil sharpener blade, prompting a call to police, says educator Jenessa Dworet.
“He was really scared of himself,” said Dworet. “He was afraid he was going to hurt people. He was very obsessed with guns.”
Hussain, 29, walked down a stretch of Danforth Ave. just after 10 p.m. Sunday night and opened fire, killing 10-year-old Julianna Kozis, 18-year-old Reese Fallon and injuring more than a dozen others. He died of a fatal gunshot wound after exchanging gunfire with two officers; authorities have not revealed the circumstances of his death, but police sources have said he shot himself.
Dworet, who lives off the Danforth, heard the killer’s name but didn’t realize it was her former student until she saw Hussain’s photograph. She recognized the face of a young man who, nearly a decade ago, she would take on walks around the school neighbourhood in an effort to calm him down.
“It was chilling, because part of me was thinking: ‘What if he had done something like this while I worked with him?’ And part of me was thinking: ‘How could he have gone nine years without getting more support?’
“And that just breaks my heart, because I know he could have been a better person if he had had more support, or he at least could have been less of a threat to society,” she said.
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