My favorite quote from the Brooks piece:
If the evidence continues as it has, the obvious questions are these: How can we more aggressively treat mentally ill people who are becoming increasingly disruptive? How can we prevent them from getting guns? Do we need to make involuntary treatment easier for authorities to invoke?
These are the questions we should be asking. I do not like Sarah Palin, and I find much of modern political rhetoric abhorrent (and I agree that, while it comes from both sides, it is more common on the Right), but this incident seems to be completely unrelated to political rhetoric.
2 comments:
I have been wondering exactly those same questions as Brooks. But how would they be implemented? Who decides?
I didn't care as much for the other.
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