Well, they're not going to be locked up in mental institutions, like they used to be.
That would cost money, more money than it costs for Medicaid to pay for the meds that lunatics like Loughner take or choose not to take, depending on how they wish to exercise their presumed right to an independent lifestyle.
Locking them up isn't going to happen for the same reason we're not keeping career felons locked up for their entire sentences. Taxpayers do not want to spend money on it.
Taxpayers - not the usual run of folk who drop by the 'Fire, of course - would rather piss and moan and complain about atrocities such as this, than do the ONE THING that would truly make a difference, not just to the congresswoman, but thousands of other families each year, and that is ...
Open up their frigging checkbooks and PAY for institutionalization of the dangerously unstable.
