Seagull58
In the Algarve
In the US, he may well have been carrying an AR-15, blown a number of people to pieces, and then the responding police officers may or may not have engaged him, based on hundreds of events in recent years.Just to clarify, as you and Harry WT know (but others might not) ‘Autism’ has nothing to do with mental health illnesses, it is the way your brain is wired at birth (I am pretty sure someone started an autism thread last year). Having Autism certainly doesn’t make me more likely than a non-neurodivergent person to go out and commit murder most foul.
As far as random killings by mentally disturbed people, have they increased? No idea (you could probably find stats online) I worked in the drug and alcohol/homelessness services for 20 years and it was common knowledge that as a result of the overhaul of mental health care in this Country under Thatcher to end institutionalised care and introduce Care in the Community, many people fell through the net (and ended up homeless) then became sectioned anyway in crises because Community support is severely underfunded and always has been. Of course Class A drugs have always been around too so much of what we might see as mental health ‘breakdowns’ in public (in A&E) is often drug induced psychosis.
He’s lucky he’s alive, he would have been shot in the US for putting the officer‘s and public lives at risk having already fatally attacked a young boy.
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