2011年2月28日月曜日

IN THE ARENA Arms and the Unbalanced

by Joe Klein

Heated rhetoric doesn’t help, but the real need is to reassess policy on guns and the mentally ill.

A U.S. democrat Gabrielle Giffords was shot by Loughner, a mentally ill man. Two questions are involved here: one is that many U.S. citizens are victims of crazy people. In 1950s they were confined to mental hospitals, but 1960s major cities were teeming with the homeless or/and mentally ill. Romanticization of mental illness and the American Civil Liberties Union made it near impossible to put the schizophrenics to a secure facility. The second is the lenient gun control. The National Rifle Association’s campaign and a Supreme Court rule enhanced the right to bear arms. These two problems should be reassessed.

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