bill: yeah. and in the reagan years they let them out. i misspoke it s 3 million people not 30 million people. it started in the kennedy area with the deinstitutionalization which was supposedly inhumane. today what we are doing with insistence on individual autonomy and the reluctance to want to put anybody into commitment is that the homeless are dying on the street, freezing on the streets with their rights on in a way. and what we re doing with the dangerous mentally ill like this loughner guy, is leaving him loose in society, like the virginia tech killer, remember him? there were all kinds of signs about derangement in him. but, with our laws, it is so hard to commit somebody against his will that they have you know, when there were five incidents in the college that loughner was in, five encounters with the police, the campus police, one of his professors said can t you do anything?
bill: yeah. and in the reagan years they let them out. i misspoke it s 3 million people not 30 million people. it started in the kennedy area with the deinstitutionalization which was supposedly inhumane. today what we are doing with insistence on individual autonomy and the reluctance to want to put anybody into commitment is that the homeless are dying on the street, freezing on the streets with their rights on in a way. and what we re doing with the dangerous mentally ill like this loughner guy, is leaving him loose in society, like the virginia tech killer, remember him? there were all kinds of signs about derangement in him. but, with our laws, it is so hard to commit somebody against his will that they have you know, when there were five incidents in the college that loughner was in, five encounters with the police, the campus police, one of his professors said can t you do anything? and they answered, we can t do