Question 1) Was James Holmes known to be mentally ill?
Question 2) Was James Holmes taking medication for mental illness?
Question 3) Were there red flags that should have indicated to friends and family that Holmes was a time bomb, ready to go off?
Question 4) If none of these things are true, then why are we having this conversation? Political agenda? Does everything have to be fodder for additional federal intervention?
How about just a tad more fodder, but this time for liberty intervention?
Question 5) Did James have any reason to fear being shot back at while in the act of his massacre?
Of course it does. It might even work so well to flag and monitor people who have been treated for mental illness that we could extend that to include people who have seen a doctor for mild depression, or people who have simply acted a little unusual in a public venue, or hey, let's cover all the bases and just flag and monitor anyone who opposes the Democrat political agenda.
Mona Charen is the one who misses the point. The one about how easy it is to move from her supposedly simple solution to an effort to control the minds and acts of all citizens.