What do you do if you are associated in some way in our society with someone who is not just “odd,” or “peculiar,” but is possibly even “threatening”?
That can be a hard question to answer.
It comes to our attention from time to time – much too often.
A recent situation, of course, was the tragic case in Tucson, Ariz., in which Jared Loughner has been charged in connection with the attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. She was gravely wounded, and six other innocent people who happened to be in the area when the shooting began were killed.
Now we are informed that there were “warning signs” – that there were several incidents and occasions when more than just mildly “unusual behavior” had been demonstrated by Loughner.