Mental health should be part of talk post-Arizona shooting

Bob Collins
Bob Collins
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A lot of the reaction to Saturday's shootings in Tucson has focused on whether angry political rhetoric can fuel this kind of violence. Bob Collins has been writing about the tragedy from a different point of view. Bob is the author of the NewsCut blog at MPRNews.org. He's written that this event raises questions about how our society deals with people who have mental illness.

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