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My personal opinion is that People Kill People, not guns! That girl would have found some other way of killing herself if she hadn't been allowed to buy that gun. Let's face it!

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Someone who is truly suicidal, or homicidal for that matter will find another method. So (1) I CERTAINLY don't want my medical records open except without my express permission and (2) sometimes the assumption is that everyone who has some type of mental illness is therefore ipso facto a danger to themselves or others. NOT TRUE!!!

Years ago when Prozac first came out, I began hearing on the news that someone committed suicide "because they were on Prozac." Then recently, here in FL (many probably saw this on the news) a man ran off a plane in Miami while it was still being loaded shouting "I have a bomb." Two undercover air marshalls told him twice to drop to the ground. He did not and reached around to his backpack. The marshals (having to make a split-second decision and based on the man's comment thought he could be reaching for a detonator) shot him, which was tragic, but it was protocol and if this poor man DID have a bomb, MANY people's lives were in danger.

The reason I mention this? Apparently his wife, traveling with him (who works in some type of social service or mental health field) ran after him shouting "That's my husband; he's bipolar and doesn't have his meds!"

So what has the media picked up on? "Bipolar man runs out of plane shouting he has a bomb." So what does someone uneducated on mental illness think of when I might share that I have been dx bipolar? I've even heard one of the people being interviewed after this incident quoted as saying that mentally ill people shouldn't fly alone. (Errrr, he wasn't alone, his wife was with him.)

On a side note, I play a computer fantasy game and several years ago a man in his 20's became morose, holed himself up in his room and ended up committing suicide. His parents sued the game manufacturer!

This is a very hot topic, especially when there is loss of life, but good grief, those of us trying to survive normally with our illnesses don't need to have still more restrictions put on our lives.