Actually, getting the seriously mentally ill off the streets is a good idea. It seems to me that James Holmes, Jared Loughner, and maybe Cho Seung-Hui and Adam Lanza, were as crazy as shithouse rats. But nobody will know for sure, and commitment policies won’t stop all the massacres.
Here’s what the gun-grabbers don’t seem to realize: over the past 50 years, all but one of these mass shootings occurred in places that were effectively gun-free zones. Congress and the President should work to get rid of the gun-free school zones law and allow concealed carry reciprocity, to make these massacres much less likely to happen. Private establishments such as malls should also drop their gun-free zone policies.
But they won’t, as far as I can tell.
Actually, I meant Congress should FORCE concealed-carry reciprocity between the states under the power given to them by the Full Faith and Credit clause of the Constitution.
The truly mentally ill responsible are in Washington D.C. right now deciding our collective fate over the lobster bisque and a bottle of Dom.