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If you look at a single incident and try to assign blame, you'll likely never be satisfied with any answer. However, if you look at this as a category of incidents, then it's actually quite easy to find ways to reduce the number of occurrences.
For example, for drug related offenses, you could be looking at solutions like decriminalizing drugs and offering more social programs. Lab tests with rats have shown that when the rats have a strong community, they will naturally stop abusing drugs. It wouldn't be surprising if the same thing works with humans. We should be spending government money to encourage the development of caring communities.
For mental health related offenses, the same sorts of things can help. Having support can be the difference between life and death. Although psych meds can be lifesavers, the government needs to invest not only in pharmaceuticals and making pharmaceutical companies rich, but in treating the person.
And it goes without saying, but the violent sort of fascist rhetoric that we constantly see from the GOP and MAGA in particular, shouldn't be tolerated from our politicians. Ideally, I'd like to say the same for news, but that's a more difficult problem to solve.
That's what's getting me so bad about all of this. Constantly.
There was some sort of facade of gentlemanly/ladyly respect in politics before, but now there's just a klan of bullies who say and do whatever they want and say "So, what are you gonna do about it?"
And the opposition can seemingly do naught but shrug and hand over all of our lunch money.