"Mostly peaceful?"

Aside from the useful idiots who are treating the Daniel Penny case as a simple "white man kills black man" story, there are lefties who are trying to paint Jordan Neely's death to a lack of compassion for a man with mental health and substance abuse problems.

Yes, we can do more for people who have mental health problems. Yes, we should help people who seek help for substance abuse issues.

The reality, though, is that these manic episodes and these mind altering drugs often make people imminent threats. The key word being "imminent."

Neely was an imminent threat. It was the responsibility of nobody on that subway car to take a moment to try to calm him down and ask of he wanted to go to a shelter or a hospital or something. It was nobody's responsibility to reach out a helping hand to a potentially rabid dog.

This seems to happen every time somebody acts in self-defense or defense of others when the person taken down is having a manic episode, or is high on something. People come out and talk about how harmless he always was -- how kind. They show him at his most innocent. They show his baby pictures. They insist up and down that, if he were still alive, he'd be a perfect angel.

It's the whole "mostly peaceful" thing.

Well, O.J. Simpson had a mostly peaceful day the day he committed the double murder -- it was just that little chunk of the day wherein he got a bit stabby.

If you're putting mind-altering substances into your body, whatever happens, including your own death, is on you. It's not on anybody else to know that you were an innocent baby angel your entire life before you got high and started threatening people's lives in a drug-fueled rag. It's not on anybody else to speculate about how great your life may be after you come off the drugs. It's not on anybody else to even think about whether you're acting violently because your high or because you have something else fucked up in your brain.

The only responsibility that anybody has is to react proportionality to get you to stop being a threat. If killing you is what it takes to make you stop being a threat, that's what people are obliged to do.