By Corki Siemaszko
President Ronald Reagan's daughter (click here) Patti Davis said she has forgiven her dad's would-be assassin, but thinks he should remain behind bars.
Davis weighed-in on John Hinckley Jr. just hours after a judge Wednesday sprung him from the mental hospital that has been his home for 35 years -- and granted him permission to live full-time at his mom's home in Virginia.
"When my father was lying in a hospital bed recovering from the gunshots that nearly killed him, he said, 'I know my ability to heal depends on my willingness to forgive John Hinckley'," she wrote at length on her web site. "I too believe in forgiveness. But forgiving someone in your heart doesn't mean that you let them loose in Virginia to pursue whatever dark agendas they may still hold dear."
Hinckley, Davis wrote, "will have to check in sometimes with his doctors, and he will have to live with his 90 year old mother, which shouldn't cramp his style too much given her age and infirmities."...
