Another case of………it’s NOT the tool used, it’s the person using the tool , stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Letter: “What about hammers?”
Date: Aug 1, 2006 9:28 AM
PUBLICATION: Chatham Daily News (ON)
DATE: 2006.08.01
SECTION: Opinion
PAGE: 7
COLUMN: Letter
WORD COUNT: 323

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An evaluation situation

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SIR: I was stunned by the story by Erica Brown in The Daily News
concerning a Patrick Robinson being sentenced to time served for
whacking a man on the head with a ball-peen hammer! While a friend of
his spoke to the other man, he hit him on the side of the head with the
hammer!

Patrick Robinson had served 71 days in pre-trial custody and his lawyer
said that he has a history of mental illness and intends to get
counselling.

When Ontario Court Justice Edward McGrath asked Robinson why he hit the
man, Robinson responded “there really was no reason.” McGrath said that
makes the incident worse. Robinson agreed. McGrath put Robinson on
probation for 18 months and banned him from owning firearms for 10
years.

The judge banned him from owning firearms for 10 years? What was this
judge thinking about? What about hammers?

Anyone who would hit another human (or even a defenceless animal) with a
hammer, for no reason, as admitted by Robinson, needs to be committed to
a mental institution until he is safe to be let out into the general
public again. In my opinion, he certainly should have been detained
until an evaluation of his mental fitness and danger to the general
public is carried out. I for one will be writing to the justice minister
about this kind of sentencing and probation period that puts me and
every other citizen in danger of being attacked for no reason
whatsoever.

Is there something we are missing in this report that would give the
general public a feeling that this person would not repeat this type of
behavior in the future? Why, in God’s name, wasn’t he given a mental
evaluation during the 71 days he was incarcerated awaiting trial and the
report read into the record at the trial?

I suspect nothing was done to evaluate the dangerous man and now he is
on the street again.

Jim Daley Chatham

The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !