On Fox News I read an article about the Pentagon shooter and his background. What interested me is not that he opened fire and wounded two, but that I read the underlying need of the article. Bedells parents, especially his mother, had tried to have the man who was diagnosed as Bipolar and Manic Depressive hospitalized. However, since he is an adult he can refuse treatment and that is what happened. His mother had tried to seek help for him and yet was turned away. Thankfully the two shot appear to be alive, but they were in critical condition. Bedell was killed as a result. This could have been prevented if there were better laws in our society to prevent people from being institutionalized. We have these concepts that mentally ill people have the right to accept or decline treatment yet most of the time they are on disability because we view them as in capable of maintaining employment. Yet we think that they can make appropriate decisions regarding their treatments.

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