civil liberties are the rights of the individual. The minute that the individual demonstrates himself to be a risk to himself but more specifically to others then it's no longer question civil liberties it's a question of the state's ability and compelling interest to protect its citizens from those of us that may not be mentally well. There were several instances by which the state could have a engaged criminal justice system by which this person would have had a criminal record that would have prevented them from having a gun or be pursued some form institutionalization or correction because this person that demonstrated time and time again that his emotional / mental state made him an imminent threat to others.

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