I think the article misses that point. Somewhere toward the middle, more mental health professionals to understand the swatter. No thanks, not on my dime. Send the mental health professionals to the swatted house where they can relaxedly see nothing is wrong.

> I think this misses the point entirely.

No it doesn't miss any point entirey.

I said

> But yeah, we need to rethink certain police protocols as well...

If someone hires a hitman to pull the trigger, that someone is an integral part of the chain of causality leading to the murder, and that should be criminal.

Why are the police synonymous with "hitmen" ?

The police can't help themselves. It's not their fault. Their academies never taught them wrong from right. Maybe if they're made to attend a 2 hour training seminar entitled "How to not murder the victims of SWATting" they'll do better.

Rocks can be used to murder people by bashing them on the head. Maybe it's not the criminals we should be worried about so much as all the rocks out there on planet earth.

Rocks are inanimate objects, the police are people