[Mark was here]

Valid or not, a man who assassinated the President should not be allowed out of the ward. Besides, there should be -some- degree of culpability when one is insane. Otherwise, drunks would never be charged for anything.

I agree with you, he needs to remain in the ward. His cheese has slipped off the cracker and there is no going back.

The truly mentally ill, deserve a safe place, for they are all ready trapped in a prison of their own mind. They are in a sad situation.

Drunks are a completely different class of people, and should not be allowed to pass as insane. Drunks can change if they want to, it is simply a mater of wanting to.

[Seamoth]

There's probably not a solution to the punishment of mentally ill. I think we all realize that justice was not done in the Hinckley case, but at the same time, most of us have had close enough brushes with mental illness to hope that someone views us with compassion.

However, if I do kill any President, or any other innocent person for that matter, I hope someone hangs me, mentally ill or not.