We don't, we continue to be strong in the rights to fully defend ourselves along with defending other good law abiding citizens, and hope we never have to use the right to do so.
I don't disagree, but as a practical matter, it isn't going to work that way. I think we can already see that. Also, as a matter of livability, we need to figure out the mental health thing. I can't go to Portland without walking by people who are dropping their pants for no reason, talking to lamp posts, etc. Not dangerous, until they are. A few weeks ago one of them walked up to a lady and bashed her in the head for no reason.
I am not in favor of going back to the days of locking people up for excessive novel reading, but there has to be a way to protect society from those who can't or won't be helped. There has to be a way to get at those who are IDed by people as dangerous, but are untouchable until they actually do something bad. There has to be a way to get those who won't stay on meds to stay on them or be institutionalized.
As I said, I don't know the answer, but if one is not found pretty quickly we are going to lose the battle to keep our rights legally. It is really bad on the west coast. Our politics play a part in it, but even if we had people with the will to clean up the mess, the courts would protect the rights of the nuts over my right not to have to worry about going into town.
IDK if I posted this before but this is what we are dealing with. Seattle is not the only place that has this problem. It is as bad here and worse in CA.
