While not featured, and the media here is at least admitting that it was a man with a pistol that helped stop the mentally-ill stabber that attacked 11 people in a Walmart in Taraverse City.
The Detroit Free Press: Sheriff: Bystanders helped stop Michigan Walmart stabbing suspect from hurting more people
It only took until the sixth paragraph for the Detroit Free Press to note that of the men surrounding the stabber and stopping him there was:
one who appears to be holding a handgun
Still, at least that's something.
The Detroit News also took the same six paragraphs to get to that rather important fact, but they were at least a bit more definitive about it:
The Detroit News: Sheriff: Traverse City Walmart stabbings started near checkout lanes
About five minutes later, the man was surrounded by shoppers in the parking lot, including one who was holding a gun.
Both the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News managed to fail to mention that the hero with the gun who stopped the stabber happened to be Black - because that really wouldn't have fit the narrative.
Nor did they so much as mention that this hero was a law-abiding Black man who had a concealed carry permit and was legally carrying at the time.
Hero? Yes, he and the others certainly are heroes by taking action then and there to stop the attack and subdue the attacker - long before the police arrived.
And the stabber, to no one's surprise has a long history of both criminal convictions (with minimal sentences) and of mental illness.
The Detroit Free Press: Traverse City Walmart stabbing suspect had history of mental health and legal troubles
We need to treat mental illness a lot more seriously in this country, and actually institutionalize those who are a danger to themselves and others, rather than let them wander free and assault others at will.
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"and actually institutionalize those who are a danger to themselves and others, rather than let them wander free"
And any Psychologist who says they are not a danger gets to spin the wheel and has a 30% chance of having to house these people for a year in their home with their family....Or be criminally liable when (not if) they go off their cams again and harm someone or cause a police response.
Sad though it is, many of these people are a time bomb waiting to explode. They need help and society needs protection from such people as much as they need protection from society.
Used to be that way until "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was published and made into a film...... Then we had to "Mainstream" these people, to their and society's detriment.
And the ACLU will sue you for their 'freedom'... sigh
Part of it was JFK, who hated the places we used to call nut houses, which was of course horrible. Sanitariums was the more correct way to refer to them, and we had a very large one in Traverse City, MI. Coincidence? Who knows?
B: Yep, the problem is making that diagnosis is harder than you think except in the easy cases. We also don't want them blindly overdiagnosing people either. But for the obvious cases such as this guy, yes they should have been institutionalized where they can;t be out to harm others.
Pigpen51 - there's lost of group homes for the mentally ill all over the place and unfortunately darn little control even over those with a propensity for violence. Until this gets fixed, it's going to keep happening.
Old NFO: Yes, yes they will.
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