WASHINGTON Reagan's son blasts unsupervised visits for Hinckley

A judge gave permission for the gunman to visit his parents.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former President Reagan's son Michael, denouncing as "an outrage" a judge's decision to allow John Hinckley Jr. unsupervised visits with his parents, questioned whether the Hinckleys would be able to prevent their son from harming himself or others.
"Can we trust two 80-year-old parents, if he gets off of his drugs, to do the right thing and get him back into a hospital where he belongs or stop him from hurting himself or hurting others?" Michael Reagan asked today on ABC's "Good Morning America."
The former president's family has reacted with dismay to U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman's decision Wednesday that the man who tried to assassinate Reagan may have six visits with his parents in the Washington area without staff from the mental hospital where he has lived for more than two decades.
"They're saying, 'He's fine; he's on his meds,'" Michael Reagan said. "He gets off his meds, does that mean everybody has to duck?"
He said Hinckley has never apologized to the victims or to the families of the people he wounded. Reagan noted that his father suffers from Alzheimer's disease and is being cared for at home in California. Nancy Reagan, Michael Reagan said, has "enough to deal with" without knowing "that the man who shot her husband is now going to be free to roam."
Mrs. Reagan has issued a statement saying she thinks Hinckley still poses a danger to the public.
Terms of decision
The judge placed a number of strict conditions on Hinckley's visits and rejected Hinckley's request to travel to his parents' home in Williamsburg, Va., about three hours south of Washington. He said a detailed schedule must be submitted to him two weeks before each unsupervised visit.