Comments on: Our legal system doesn’t seem designed for thwarted attacks https://www.isegoria.net/2022/08/our-legal-system-doesnt-seem-designed-for-thwarted-attacks/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 21:33:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Goober https://www.isegoria.net/2022/08/our-legal-system-doesnt-seem-designed-for-thwarted-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-3561228 Goober Wed, 24 Aug 2022 22:24:01 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49216#comment-3561228 This does bring up a pretty difficult question, really, which essentially boils down to:

“Hey, we know that this guy intended to murder a bunch of people in a mass shooting, but we caught him before he did it, but technically, he didn’t really commit any crimes so… yeah. NOW WHAT?”

No sane person would want this guy Moody to just be released. It’s a cinch that he’s got murder on the brain and he’ll likely end up succeeding next time, but he hasn’t committed a crime yet, so how, exactly, do we deal with this guy?

Yeah, I know he technically committed a low level crime that he’ll be back on the streets again in short order. May as well have not committed one, for all the good it will do.

So what do we do?

You can’t incarcerate someone for suspicion, no matter how well-founded. Do we involuntarily commit him to a mental institution?

What do we do?

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