Why focus on Huckabee? Clemmons had been in jail awaiting trial on unrelated charges less than a week before he did the shootings, but they let him out on bail despite a mental health evaluation having found him to be dangerous and unstable; a quick look at Wikipedia says that the court psychologist didn’t commit him to a mental health facility despite him claiming to have hallucinated “people drinking blood and people eating babies, and lawless on the streets, like people were cannibals”, the judge set bail significantly lower than the prosecutors wanted, and a bail bond company posted the bail for him (despite two other bondsmen having rejected him for being a massive risk). This was a man who was behaving erratically, had been deemed unstable by hospital psychologists, and should not have been allowed back out on the streets until his trial.

But no, because a big-name politician pardoned him a decade ago (after he’d already spent more time inside prison than he had outside it!), the entire nation is going to ignore the significant problems that led to this, many of which are indicative of major issues in both the Washington and Arkansas justice systems, and just blame the unlucky celebrity instead.