It should not need to be said, but since Democrats at CNN are so outraged at the concept, it must be: Violent people with mental illnesses need to be locked up, in some form or fashion, because mental illness is not an excuse to allow crime.

CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, on which several liberals yell at and shame a nightly conservative guest, was the home of this debate. Caroline Downey was the unlucky conservative who rightly argued that violent, mentally ill people should be institutionalized or jailed. Phillip, Keith Boykin, and Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh pulled the “how dare you” card on Downey, implying it was crazy to argue that someone like Decarlos Brown Jr. should be locked up for life and trying to argue that Downey wanted everyone with schizophrenia to be locked up for life.