My comment right at this moment is that an individual who uses a gun to commit a criminal offence is a different type of individual and has to be treated differently, and the reverse onus.... Someone who walks into a corner store, uses a gun, and threatens the life an individual is different from the individual who shoplifts. The shoplifter is released, promises to appear, is quickly through the system and out of the system, and is then asked to appear back before the courts. But an individual who intentionally has a gun in his or her possession and has the nerve to go into a store or dwelling with the intent of using that gun to commit a criminal offence has to be treated differently from the other so-called criminals we have in our system.
I would also emphasize that by keeping that individual--if that individual cannot explain to the courts why he or she should be released--the courts will have the opportunity to assess that individual at the time when, if convicted, appropriate programs are in place and an appropriate placement is in place for that type of individual.