There have been other such incidents within the past year, including a young man with mentalillness pushing a young woman into the path of a subway train because of her attractive, butinexpensive, earrings; a man with mental illness who stabbed a young girl with a hypodermicneedle on a subway, producing the fear that the needle might be contaminated with a diseasesuch as HIV/AIDS; the "shoe store massacre" where a person with mental illness shot twelvepeople, killing all but one person, because he thought that his shoe order was late in arriving;and the mother who stopped taking her psychotropic medications and threw her baby out thewindow of her apartment building. A person with a Mental handicap should be responsible fortheir action The law obviously has to play the pivotal role in protecting citizens from the violence of others,whether or not the perpetrators suffer from such intense mental illness that they are notresponsible for their actions.
