CHRIS POWELL: You're on your own in zombified Connecticut
Published: Saturday, December 21, 2013
"Art imitates life, which may explain the profusion of movies about zombies. After all, zombies now stalk the country, Connecticut included -- from Adam Lanza in Newtown a year ago to John Louis Lynn, who last weekend massacred his former girlfriend and her two cousins at her apartment in Manchester before shooting himself to death when confronted by police outside.
Nobody wants to acknowledge it, but government seems unable to do much about the zombie plague. In response to the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut rushed to enact legislation, but none of it, from minor gun restrictions to suppressing crime scene photos, would have impeded the crime. The federal government seems inclined to start throwing money at mental health, but such treatment is far from reliable and most gun violence is less a matter of mental health than the failure of drug criminalization, which still can't be addressed seriously."
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