The Tucson shooting was predictable, and not because of heated Left-Right political rhetoric (which Obamalot helped create and cannot solve) but due to an older, never-resolved political mistake.
“These tragedies are the inevitable outcome of five decades of failed mental-health policies. During the 1960s, we began to empty the state mental hospitals but failed to put in place programs to ensure that the released patients received treatment after they left.
“By the 1980s, the results were evident—increasing numbers of seriously mentally ill persons among the homeless population and in the nation’s jails and prisons.”
You can see the results on any Austin street corner, i.e. the bums out cadging money from motorists. Some of them are too lazy to work, or have serious alcohol or drug addictions. But more have the dazed, out-of-it look of the mentally lost. Or the damned.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 