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<blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 801738" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>Now that we&#039;ve established the specific, let&#039;s go to the general.&nbsp; I would be willing to bet that within recovery rooms your story, while like many in terms of emotional and mental state is somewhat different in legal repercussions.&nbsp; Please do not take offense, but I have sat across the table and had coffee with what could easily be defined as the criminally insane.&nbsp; That they had not yet been caught meant little.&nbsp; We have a mental health unit around here that will diagnose patients as &quot;bi-polar&quot; without regard to drug and alcohol abuse.&nbsp; And as so often the case, we see people all the time who walk around with the past not being the past.&nbsp; Some call it a &quot;dry drunk&quot;.&nbsp; Again, I&#039;m not trying to find new laws.&nbsp; I&#039;m trying to see how the laws we have protect us from these individuals, some without a violent past but severely disturbed none the less.&nbsp; Maybe there is no answer and we are at the mercy of the jackal because that&#039;s the natural order of things.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="bbsam, post: 801738, member: 22662"] Now that we've established the specific, let's go to the general. I would be willing to bet that within recovery rooms your story, while like many in terms of emotional and mental state is somewhat different in legal repercussions. Please do not take offense, but I have sat across the table and had coffee with what could easily be defined as the criminally insane. That they had not yet been caught meant little. We have a mental health unit around here that will diagnose patients as "bi-polar" without regard to drug and alcohol abuse. And as so often the case, we see people all the time who walk around with the past not being the past. Some call it a "dry drunk". Again, I'm not trying to find new laws. I'm trying to see how the laws we have protect us from these individuals, some without a violent past but severely disturbed none the less. Maybe there is no answer and we are at the mercy of the jackal because that's the natural order of things. [/QUOTE]

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