We're talking about violence though, too; I don't want to necessarily hear from the crook about how to handle him. You and I aren't going to be very useful talking about violence and severe mental illness, (a) because we don't have severe mental illness and (b) we've never indicated any logical (or otherwise) proneness to violence where our opinion on it would be of significance?

A mentally ill person who "snaps" and goes over the line toward violence is not identifiable yet. We don't want to treat all seriously mentally ill people the same, as if they could snap and get violent but, since the seriously mentally ill generally need some sort of help living in the "normal" world, we have to figure out better safeguards to make sure if they "snap", they don't hurt themselves or others. If a parent is having trouble controlling a mentally ill child who has anger issues and is abusing them or threatening to, those parents need some sort of help; yes, maybe it's their "fault" the child is acting out as he is but, buying guns for him like one of the latest parents alleged did I think I read, is obviously not the solution? But I can't imagine that any serious mentally ill person with violent outbursts or an overly secret life (an indication of lack of support, to me) is going to have much to offer such a hearing? We do suicide watches, why not violent watches?