Rights, Regulation and Human Dignity | Capital Commentary

Rights, Regulation and Human Dignity | Capital Commentary by Paul Brink.  MGB: In the cases cited, the instigator of the violence was clearly mentally unbalanced - not in such a way that removed culpability or made the person entirely dysfunctional - but enough to be seen as dangerous.  Likewise, many who die in gun violence do so because of suicide or because they are either drinking and kill loved ones while enraged or are committing crimes in relation to either the drug trade or to obtain money to buy drugs.  Looking toward gun regulation is not nearly as fruitful as looking at how difficult it has made to intervene on people having mental health crises or addiction issues - which often demand criminality, surrender or complete dysfunction for any action to occur.  I submit we need to make it easier to provide care against one's wishes if we want to make any progress in these areas.  This is where the paradox of freedom is starkest - how free can anyone be if they are locked in mental dysfunction?