If you have ever noticed, his parents officially support him, but they sure as hell act like they want nothing to do with him like he is a burden.
Kind of like a "my son is a worthless crackhead and piece of garbage, but he is our son and we love him for who he is even though we think he is crap".
Listening to his family (especially his brother) you get the feeling they feel obligated to spend money to help him, but don't want him anywhere outside of a hospital.
The Leftwing kooks try to make a conspiracy theory out of the fact that his family and the Bush family are actually friends and are pretty close.
I think the media played down the fact that he was a disturbed nut who was rebelling more against his family, and played up his sick obsession with Jodie Foster (they also totally ignored he fact that he was a one time neo-nazi and socialist with homicidal urges).
The MA. media never bothered to print Hinkley's interesting background. The neo-Nazi stuff, 'socialist with homicidal urges', all news to the truth deprived in MA. I wish the court were more forthcoming about the terms of these longer stays outside the hospital. The whole thing seems sugar-coated. 'He's fine. Go back to sleep'.
I understand his right to privacy, but his crime was against the office of the President and thus against the entire country, so you'd think we'd have the right to know more than they're saying. (Anyone who lived through the trauma of Nov. 23, 1963 and the interminable aftermath -- forty years and counting -- will understand the point.) For instance, what does this 'closely monitored by the psychiatric facility' involve? A daily phone call? Who's really keeping an eye on him? Who's making sure he's swallowing those pills? In six months will we discover that his family's petitioned to have him set free? After which, a few months later, in small print on the back page, we'll read that his depression returned and drove him to kill someone. Surprise, surprise. But it won't be Hinkley's fault. He purchased a gun quite easily, so it's Smith and Wesson's fault. (In fact, Virginia is where MA thugs go to get guns.)