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Old January 19th, 2011 #2
Rob Ivy
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The problem is that you cannot commit crazy people before they go on a shooting spree, although you can hold them in a mental facility for 72 hours if they appear to be a threat to themselves or others.

The ACLU sued the Reagan administration in the 80's to release those who had been committed to asylums based on the argument that such practices violated their Constitutional rights. The courts decided in favor of the ACLU, and all those who were committed were released, which resulted in the 'Homeless Problem' that persists to this very day.

I guess you could call it karma, in that this was a Liberal who was shot in the head by an obvious lunatic that should have been locked-up in an insane asylum a long time ago, where he would be medicated and content to sit in a corner fingering his own ass crack and sniffing his finger.