Guy being interviewed after witnessing a beheading on a bus

I've carried a knife on me for 25 years, opened many a cardboard box with it.

That's irrelevant though, a psychotic break is not a 1 minute thing. He could have literally been led to that point for 4 days by voices telling him that on that bus was something that was going to end the world and he needed to fight it or his family would be consumed by devils or some other insanity and it would be more real to him then his own hands.

He was an undiagnosed schizophrenic with I believe a dissociative identity disorder of some sort.

Canadian judicial system isn't for punishment. The number one goal is rehabilitation and in this case with his diagnosis the 7 years in a mental institution was to make sure that the medicine worked and that he wouldn't have a lapse and he hasn't he was supposedly exceptionally compliant and regretful.

I get the gut visceral reaction and if it was my sister or brother that died I'd want him dead too but I don't want a legal or mental health system based around feelings, because what happened was a psychological lottery of evil that could happen to me or you tomorrow and I think reasonable compassion is the best route when it's mental health.

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