U.S. Government shuts down.

[eppie]

Mental Illness, is a defense in this case. And as such, I don't think that (if she would have been able to go to trial), she should have been incarcerated in a prison, and left to rot. Just going off the few more in depth articles I found today, she needed In Patient Care, to at least get a handle on, and begin to manage a very tough Mental Health Diagnosis. Prescription Drugs used to treat Schizophrenia aren't handed out for "lesser" illnesses. For a comparison, you wouldn't give someone with the Flu Chemotherapy. Similar thing here. You wouldn't give someone with ADHD these meds. MAYBE BiPolar disorder. MAYBE. But then, most BiPolar Disorder sufferers, don't get manic to a point where you would go on this type of "thing".

@shoju and jester

Of course i understand what you are saying and I understand the hectics of the situation but what I am trying to say is that this is all caused by a whole series of bad organization in a country.
-overemphasis on fear of terrorism and on violence as the solution
-no organized help for people with psychological issues eventhough everyone knows that therapy works much better for a society as a whole than just waiting before one of the people hurts himself or others.
-too much power to relatively untrained police officers (you don't get into too much trouble if you kill someone in the line of duty compared to western europe for example).
etc.

For this reason the reaction of the congressmen FIT posted are indeed to get sick from.