Sydney stabbings

Six dead including him,  sounds like he was using a semi-automatic knife, those damn things should be banned completely!   I wonder how many lives might have been saved if "Stop The Bleed Kits" were readily available in that shopping center?  There is a reason I have these in our vehicles and multiple other locations, maybe I should start carrying on the person if I go shopping in a Westfield (not likely ever)! 

That might, just might be because the people who profit from mass immigration are the same ones who own media companies.

Apparently he had schizophrenia and had been living rough for quite some time. Largely out of contact with family. Identified for needing treatment but clearly in a space where he was unable to take that up. I think this is, sadly, a case of someone falling through the mental health gaps.

You're not wrong. I've mused over the years about that situation. We privatised mental health breakdowns and left every day people responsible for the health of others because people don't put mental health in the same category as physical health. You wouldn't turn someone with a broken leg out into the street without treating them but we do that to people with mental health concerns on the reg.

It's frustrating because someone who needs to be directly managed is practically never able to seek help for themselves. That's like saying to old mate broken leg "Just walk on over to the medical centre across the road. It's right over there... Why don't you just GO already? Clearly you need it and it's only a few meters away!".

I've had a few instances in the past where I've had to literally take someone by the hand and walk them into a doctor's office for immediate care. It's not as good as a trained mental health professional, but quite often assistive medication is the first step in getting someone to a mental space where they can start doing the work on healing. Not everyone that has a mental health struggle needs medication forever. But it can be a good aid to get started. But when someone is SO far into their struggle that you can't even convince them that it's safe/ok to go see a doctor for that first step? What're you supposed to do?

Drag 'em into a hospital for a forced stay. For a few days. Then they're off to the races the second they get out again. It doesn't help at all. But I also know that mental health facilities were rife with abuse and keeping that policed is almost as big of an impost as dealing with the fall out from the occasional moment where society failed the sufferer AND the population around them.
Almost.

I don't have solutions. It's a sucky situation.

100% correct. The 2nd generation anti psychotic medications were a vast improvement over 1st generation and like you said they are now medicated and not in institutions. The impact of not getting meds to the unwell can be spectacular, dangerous to the public and expensive.

Except nutcase won’t have a handgun because of his record of mental illness. Firearms Registry are very strict on this, one of my trainees was an ex cop who had a brief period where he was on medication for stress after an incident on the job, and his probationary pistol licence application was rejected for that reason.

The nut case in question had a history.

Unfortunately not all nutcases have history.