It's quite a dilemma. On the one hand, there's no doubt that as a society we cannot let people go running around making threats against others. On the other, mental health issues are not really something that most criminal justice systems are well equipped to deal with. (I readily acknowledge my lack of information specifically related to the Canadian system so would welcome a correction from someone with more information than me.)
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate
Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung