If New York is to be the stage for mad people to commit their spectacle acts of violence, then we need to talk seriously about mental-health reform.
The Nevada gunman who opened fire in midtown Manhattan last week, killing a police officer and three others, should never have made it to New York.
A competent mental-health system would have stopped him years ago and 2,000 miles away.
The 27-year-old shooter had been hospitalized involuntarily twice in Nevada, first in 2022, at the age when serious mental illnesses tend to manifest, and again in 2024.
In between those short-term holds, he had police encounters, including an arrest for criminal trespassing and exhibited troubling behavior like driving unregistered cars.
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Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Carolyn D. Gorman is a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute.
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