re: #354 lostlakehiker

The doctor at University of Colorado who deemed Holmes a threat could have been heeded.

And what form would that heed take?

She spotted the danger and reported it to higher authority. Those facts do not support an argument that it is “impossible” for mental health professionals to have any effect on the course of events. Only that the system as currently constituted isn’t getting the job done. Which, I think, was pretty much the point the president was getting at.

Why did you put ‘impossible’ in quotes as though I had said it?

And Loughner, too, was identified by professionals as being mentally off. Again, the system dropped the ball.

Again: What are the actual concrete things after this identification that would have helped?