Quote from nutmeg:
"I say yes! We need to take positive steps to protect our neighborhood children now. I propose that we as a community keep an ongoing list of names of those who display the same qualities of the VA. gunman."
Not only further isolate him, brand him. tut tut.
Au contraire, engage him, validate him as a person, not his ideas. You will validate his ideas with isolation and making him a "marked" man proving his "ideas" are right. It is self fulfilling and his and your re-actions prove him right. Once he has confirmation he is right everything else is wrong.
If i understand this correctly, validating the person fills their need for being validated. Their ideas soon fade or they become less influenced to act on them. People want to be included, even those loners who try not to be, are attempting to stir up something that at it's heart gets attention. I am sure that's a blazing generalization, but nobody really wants to feel alone or that they don't count.
