Here is an article from Ann Coulter from Townhall.com stating that liberals and gun-rights advocates do not acknowledge the possibility of institutionalizing the mentally ill as being the problem for gun violence:
http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2013/09/18/crazier-than-liberals-n1704041
There's been another mass shooting by a crazy person, and liberals
still refuse to consider institutionalizing the dangerous mentally ill.
The man who shot up the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, Aaron Alexis,
heard voices speaking to him through the walls. He thought people were
following him. He believed microwave ovens were sending vibrations
through his body. There are also reports that Alexis believed the
Obamacare exchanges were ready to go.
Anyone see any bright red flags of paranoid schizophrenia? (Either that, or Obama's NSA is way better than we thought!)
But Alexis couldn't be institutionalized because the left has
officially certified the mentally ill as "victims," and once you're a
victim, all that matters is that you not be "stigmatized."
But here's the problem: Coddling the mentally ill isn't even helping
the mentally ill. Ask the sisters of crazy homeless woman "Billie Boggs"
how grateful they were to the ACLU for keeping Boggs living on the
streets of New York City. Ask the parents of Aaron Alexis, James Holmes
(Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooter), Jared Loughner (Tucson, Ariz.,
mall shooter) or Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech shooter) how happy they
are that their sons weren't institutionalized.
Tellingly, throughout the last three decades, the overall homicide
rate has been in free fall, thanks to Republican crime policies, from 10
per 100,000 in 1980 to 4 per 100,00 today. (You might even call them
"common sense" crime policies.) But the number of mass shootings has
skyrocketed from 4 per year, between 1900 and 1970, to 29 per year since
then.
Something seems to have gone horribly wrong right around 1970. What could it be? Was it the introduction of bell-bottoms?
That date happens to correlate precisely with when the country began
throwing the mentally ill out of institutions in 1969. Your memory of
there not being as many mass murders a few decades ago is correct. Your
memory of there not being as many homeless people a few decades ago is
also correct.
But liberals won't allow the dangerous mentally ill to be committed to
institutions against their will. (The threat of commitment is very
persuasive in getting disturbed individuals to take their medicine.)
Something in liberals' genetic makeup compels them to attack
civilization, for example, by defending the right of dangerous
psychotics to refuse treatment and then representing them in court after
they commit murder.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Crazier Than Liberals
2:38 PM
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