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...unfathomable, purpose. We suspect a reason, some powerful, twisted logic. Anomic violence, on the other hand, is truly senseless. Thus crimes of madness elicit from us revulsion; crimes of need (like Jean Valjean's) sympathy; but crimes for fun, for a video game, for no purpose, elicit rage. John Hinckley Jr. did more damage in a minute than these four combined had done in a lifetime. But there could be no satisfaction in blowing him away. Blow these four away, and you are ready to run for mayor...
...somebody like me can buy six Saturday-night specials (pistols) with case, there is something drastically wrong. I'm considering giving my support to the National Coalition to Ban Handguns. John Hinckley...
Those who support the insanity defense argue that it lends moral credence to criminal law. Perhaps the real problem is trying to find a formula that preserves the public's sanity. Put bluntly, acquittals such as Hinckley's insult our gut instincts and our primitive sense of justice. "Is Hinckley's crime," the trial prosecutor asked, "the crime of someone who does not know what he is doing and who is out of control, or is it the crime of someone who has an evil, twisted and perverted mind?" The difference between being sick and depressed, psychotic and merely...
What could be stopped, of course, is the ability of the sick to purchase firearms. Though John Hinckley was under psychiatric care and taking prescriptive drugs long before the shootings, he succeeded in buying guns on ten different occasions...
...point, only months before the attempt on Reagan's life, Hinckley was arrested for carrying firearms on a plane bound for Nashville. He was fined sixty dollars, held for a few hours and released. Hours after the Washington shootings, a copy of the Second Amendment, which guarantees (depending on one's interpretation) "the right of the people to bear arms..." was discovered in Hinckley's wallet...