Brooks: MSM Shamelessly Irresponsible

David Brooks, writing for The New York Times, hits just the right note with regard to the Arizona shootings. For example, he says:

I have no love for Sarah Palin, and I like to think I’m committed to civil discourse. But the political opportunism occasioned by this tragedy has ranged from the completely irrelevant to the shamelessly irresponsible.

Having dealt with the media's fecklessness, Brooks asks three very relevant questions raised by this tragedy:

How can we more aggressively treat mentally ill people who are becoming increasingly disruptive? How can we prevent them from getting guns? Do we need to make involuntary treatment easier for authorities to invoke?

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