Coulter on Prevention of Mass Murder

The always readable Ann Coulter has a good Townhall column on a topic we've dwelt upon here at COTTonLINE. She writes about the need to separate the dangerous mentally ill from society, for their own protection and for ours as well. Coulter writes:

Since the deinstitutionalization movement got under way in the 1970s, the mentally ill remain mentally ill, but now instead of living in warm, safe institutions, they live out on the streets, in homeless shelters and in soup kitchens, or drift back to their helpless families, occasionally showing up in "gun-free zones" to commit mass murder.

Later, in her normal tart fashion, Coulter makes fun of ACLU bleeding hearts who fear "stigmatizing" the mentally ill. Do we stigmatize someone with a communicable disease when we quarantine them? No, they are dangerous to those around them.

The mentally ill can be similarly dangerous. None should be permitted to purchase or possess weapons, and the delusional should be subject to involuntary commitment.