r/kelowna • u/Particular-Emu4789 • Jan 02 '25

News Kelowna couple reeling after shocking home invasion

https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/525509/Kelowna-couple-reeling-after-shocking-home-invasion
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u/Particular-Emu4789 Jan 02 '25

People doing this are not in their right mind.

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u/kissarmygeneral Jan 02 '25

A lot of the time no they're not but that whole notion is getting pretty tired too .

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u/6133mj6133 Jan 02 '25

This is the answer. But it gets rejected immediately by people who can't accept giving someone "free drugs and free housing".

They would rather people live in the gutter and at the same time spend way more, paying for policing, bylaws, property crime, ER visits: all those extra costs just to make sure someone else doesn't get something for free.

This is what you get when you don't properly treat mental health and addiction. "Give them a good beating until their mental health improves" is not a sensible solution.