One must understand that the wanton killing of innocent people, or the killing absent a threat to personal harm, is an example of some sort of mental and/or moral deficiency. I don't see how such a thing is arguable based on thousands of years of human interaction and the mores and social conventions that have developed. A significant aspect of modern civilization is the respect for human life.

I want to call attention to the complete idiocy of the Democrat dichotomy of focusing on taking guns from the hands of legal, law abiding Americans versus their stand for the "rights" of the mentally ill to terrorize law abiding people - on a subway, for example.

No paragon of logical consistency, AOC calls for murder charges against a man who forcibly restrained a guy with a long history of criminal charges and mental illness after he randomly threatened an entire subway car of people, excusing the deceased man's criminal behavior because he was mentally ill.

We have seen examples of mentally ill people, insane is a more accurate description, kill, injure and maim random people with knives, baseball bats, pipes - even one pushing a woman onto subway tracks - for no apparent reason.

AOC never stops to think that same excuse is not used when some clearly disturbed person walks into a mall and kills random innocent people.

What are the differences between these situations?

The answer is only the tool that was chosen.

Mental illness, drug abuse and homelessness has, is, and will be a massive societal problem. All this tends to disappear during a Democrat administration and mysteriously reappear during Republican administrations , but as long as there are people, these problems will exist and coddling the mentally ill, acting as if they have special rights that supersede the rights of all other people, is not a solution.

Quite the opposite. Participating and suborning delusional, self-destructiv e behaviors only increase the frequency and severity of the problem.

Democrats constantly lecture us about the rights of certain segments of society - but the fact is a right is only a right as long as it doesn't interfere with the rights of someone else.

It is not a right to be insane. It is not a right to refuse treatment or institutionaliz ation when your behavior interferes with the rights of others to be safe in public spaces, to walk your kid to school without passing through an open air drug den or to walk out the front door of your home or business without dodging human excrement on your steps or sidewalk.

Democrats are unwilling to institutionaliz e, incarcerate or force treatment on people who deserve or need it but they are more than willing to abrogate specific, written amendments of our Constitution, compromising the rights of people who obey the law and do not pose a threat to society.

Square peg, meet round hole.