JohnK87 wrote:
I sure am glad that the State thinks field trips to Burnsville Center are OK. I'm sure they won't mind if I carry there, then.
Burnsville Center's not posted, is it? I've always used the Sears entrance or the Dick's Sporting Goods entrance. Nary a sign to be seen.
Stories like this are just one reminder to carry often and carry everywhere.
It also reminds me of a scene from "Borat" where they're running down the sidewalk after the dinner party... "Why you call police!? Have the [INSERT NON-POLITICALLY CORRECT TERM FOR 'DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED' PERSON HERE] escaped!?"
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This is not gonna be recieved well among som on this board, but I'm saying it anyway...
This is the biggest problem with the "Special Needs Mainstreaming" of America. "He doesn't know any better." "The circumstances are different for them." "They can't be held responsible, they don't know right from wrong." These are quotes commonly used by people who advocate total equality, regardless of ability.
Let me ask the most hardcore "we're all the same" bleeding heart types among you...
If your house was being broken into, and you called 911, would you want a "developmentally disabled" dispatcher taking your 911 call and determining what aid was neccessary and what priority to assign to your problem?
If a family member had been seriously injured and you called 911; the ambulance has shown up and now the driver and the attending EMTs are "special needs" people... how are you gona feel about your loved ones odds?
What I guess I'm trying to say is either the laws need to apply UNIFORMLY to EVERYONE, regardless of disability or "special needs"; no passes given for "didn't know better", or "seeing the world differently", or "not understanding the way normal people do"---or the "special needs" gang needs to be segregated to a place where they don't pose a risk to others or themselves.
Because now you have someone who "thinks differently" and has a documented history of violence running around a mall where several elderly people like to walk, where several vulnerable teens and pre-teens hang out after class unescorted...
If this escaped "patient" blows a fuse again and assaults someone (either sexually or physically) whose head does the victim get to put on a pike, so to speak?
Either separation, or uniform
(COMPLETELY uniform) punishment. No middle ground.