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Then he proceeds to blame the shootings on our refusal to lock up huge numbers of individuals whom we deem in advance to be "crazy" (a policy Krauthammer says is a "humane decision, but with the inevitable consequence that some who really need quarantine are allowed to roam the streets").
Someone should remind Krauthammer that we, as a society, used to provide psychiatric services on a much larger scale over thirty-five years ago. Then Reagan was elected and he started swinging the budget ax like, well, a veritable mass murderer. As a result, many psych patients ended up on the streets (homelessness became an issue around this time) and the availability of psych services was dramatically reduced.
I'd bet my life that Krauthammer was an enthusiastic supporter of Reagan's government shrinking policy at the time.
