text: Once more we have an example of the price we pay for living where we do.  Jeremy Joseph Christian's murderous assault did not happen in the absence of disturbing red flags waved over the last 15 years.  The quandary we face as a society is that in our legal system, it is to a large extent true that each criminal act is adjudicated separately, and we have a difficult time preemptively locking people up because they crossed some nebulously defined line of "too many bad deeds."  That's the problem, maybe not precisely in this case as Christian was a convicted felon, but there are many examples of murderers who previously committed no crimes that rose to the level of serious jail time, but nevertheless had reputations of being "seriously bad dudes."
  
  What to do?  Well, we could go the way of some other civilized countries like England where police are allowed to stop, detain, and hold citizens with little or no cause compared to what's now permissible in the USA.  Or then again, maybe not.