yeah, because that'll really work.
let's just set the rights of the mentally ill back 100 years and keep them locked up. better yet, let's go back to shock treatments and lobotomies. oh, and committing people against their will. better yet, why don't we just save the taxpayers money and execute them right away? you know, like they used to do in Nazi Germany?
it really disgusts me the solutions that some of you have for the mentally ill. Yes, mentally ill people are capable of doing horrible things when they are delusional. but how often do they, really? you only hear about things like this in the media, what, every 4 years or so? show me the "epidemic" of roving schizophrenics hitting kids with baseball bats. you can't lock up all the "lunatics" and throw away the key just because one guy went nuts on two kids, same way that locking up every drug dealer won't stop drug use, and registering every pedophile won't stop child sexual abuse, and gun control laws and "waiting periods" won't stop people from using guns irresponsibly, and awareness of the Holocaust did not stop governments from committing genocide. tragic, awful things happen in the world. not every law is going to prevent them, and it is awfully naive, and actually scary, to think that some of you want to strike a blow against civil rights for the mentally ill and disabled by locking them all up again.
and actually, according to a study done by the Institute of Psychiatry in London in 2003, "Although people with schizophrenia are significantly more likely to be violent than people who are not schizophrenic the actual
proportion of violent crime that is committed by people with schizophrenia is less than 10%. This is one of the conclusions of a research study undertaken by the Section of Forensic Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry." the author further notes that "annually
99.97% of those with schizophrenia will not be convicted of a violent crime."
so actually, maybe 99% was more accurate than I thought. anyway, you can read the article here if you feel like it.
http://www.mentalhealthcare.org.uk/research/expanded/?id=6
call me condescending, I don't really care. I speak from experience, having lived in a mental hospital myself, and having family members with mental illness.