Re. the beheading on the greyhound bus in Canada

Question

Do you thing he has done something like this before? For someone to do that wouldn't you think they have done something like that before, just not in front of other people?

Answer 1

no, sounds like he was model immigrant before this occurred.  Chruch guy, steady job, wife etc..

its called a psychotic break and can happen to anyone anytime.  there doesnt have to be any history.  

Answer 2

Wow! I am very glad I haven't broken any laws - some of you sound like you would string me up for stealing a dime without having any real facts to go on. Right now I find you more scary than the killer. He is an aberration, you are not.  

Answer 3

It seems to me that these types of cases are a Catch 22 type of thing. People run around after saying things like didn't anyone know he was sick? The answer often is "yes but". But I called the police who could not do anything until he had broken a law. But I called his doctor who said he was an adult and could not be forced into treatment against his will. But we wanted him committed but the government closed the hospitals and there was no where to send him and anyway the option for committing someone has so many blockades as to be exceedingly  difficult and expensive. Those blockades were put there to prevent people like your neighbour who doesn't like you or you sister who hates you from arbitrarily taking your freedom away.

If he had not done anything like this in fact before, how do we know he had not done this many times in his mind - a place where no one can go in fact and if they can, they are prevented by the laws - the same laws that the rest of us interpret as freedoms. They have turned on this one individual big time and are now probably all or part of the reason he is a killer.

It has been a very sad week and I feel for the young man's friends and family, the other passengers and I feel for the killer's friends and family.

No one deserved this.

Freedom is not free - it has a price. For some individuals that price is very high indeed as we have seen in Manitoba this past week.

Answer 4

I was wondering that to, sad to think that he did. I cant even imagine how that pore young boys family is coping, and all those people who had to see that on the bus. I hope he gets what he deserves.

Answer 5

I don't think he has, I think he had terrible mental breakdown before he got on that bus, but it would definately have been known if it happened before

Answer 6

Not really.

Some crazy people kill massive amounts of people with guns and NO experience!

Answer 7

Come on people.  Turning the other cheek etc. is great but there are other ways to handle your problems than this.  He may have had some episode, but no previous history at all?  Come on!

Answer 8

This was a really sad and shocking event that happened, and just live everyone else, I have the same comments.

- Why did he do this?

- How are his friends and family coping?

- Was he mentally unstable? If so why was he on the street?

The problem right now is that in today's society, everyone wants to know all the details NOW and try to come up with a solution. What do we do now, frisk all passengers on public transit?

The truth is that this happened on a bus, but it could just as easily have occurred from the guy sitting next to you in the Second Cup, or the guy that comes in after you while using the bathroom, or behind you in line at McDonald's.

The world is becoming a crazy place. So many people competing for their own breathing room, and each having their own personal problems. That is why you see cases of road rages, random shootings, and cases like this.

There is overcrowding in jails and mental institutions, causing criminals and mentally unstable people to be released prematurely. This means more and more crazy people who "never exhibited violent tendencies" are back out on the street without proper treatment or don't take the medication because they are not monitored or can't afford it. A drunk mows down three kids, goes to jail for DUI, and then is back out in a few years and back behind a wheel because there are "more violent offenders" they have to keep in.

It's sad to say, but in today's society, I think it would have been better for the police to shoot the guy when he was holding up the young man's head and the knife he used rather than trying to talk and get him to surrender. It would have saved the taxpayers a lot of money for a trial, and you know he will not re-offend.

Perhaps there should be a law...If you are munching on a body and threatening people with a weapon, we can skip the trial process and go straight to sentencing...

Answer 9

No.  If he has a very serious mental illness (which it seems he may), then in a severe delusional state, just about anything is possible.  

It appears people had asked him to get help in the years leading up to this incident, but he always refused.  He may not have understood the severity of his illness.  People who are severely mentally ill rarely believe they are before treatment.

Answer 10

He must be a hunter and has done it to animals before. I bet he's been thinking about doing this for a while and for some reason he just lost his mental grip on this bus trip.