As mentioned, I appeared before the Nunn commission, and I actually had the privilege of meeting some members of the McEvoy family--the family of the woman who was killed. By the way, they were very concerned about what happened in that case and they want to see changes, but they recognize very much that real changes to have a safer society are largely in our school system, our social service system, and in working with young people.
On the specific legal question, this bill, in my view, approaches that issue in a somewhat different way than Justice Nunn contemplated, but in a way that I actually think is consistent with the spirit of what he intended. The change in the definition of the word “violence” would I think certainly capture the specific case that he was concerned about, and similar cases. The change to the definition of “violence”, combined with the change in the test for pretrial detention, would cover those situations. It could have been dealt with in a different way, but unless one gets into rewriting a number of sections of the proposed bill now and restructuring the whole thing, it's going to be hard to capture his exact words, in my view.