Guns and the mentally ill: Why the NRA keeps talking about mental illness, rather than guns | The Economist: "WE DON'T go around shooting people, the sick people do. They need to be fixed." So said the gun-owning pensioner in the Korean War veteran's hat, demonstrating outside Connecticut's state capitol on March 11th. He was holding a sign reading: "Stop the Crazies—Step Up Enforcement of Current Laws", and like many of the gun-rights supporters rallying in Hartford this week, he wanted to talk about how improving mental health care was the proper response to massacres such as December's school shooting in Newtown, an hour's drive away.
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