This really makes me angry.

I live in an area with lots of hunters. Lots of people have rifles or shotguns or whatever in their pickup windows. See? I don't even know the difference, but I'm all for their rights to do so.

I have family members who have lots of guns. Some females in my family have CCW.

I don't have CCW but have thought about getting it. Mainly just because I can and thought it would be kind of cool to have it, just for the sake of having it.

I have a fairly close relative who was bipolar back before it was called bipolar. He killed two people and then shot himself in the head.

That kind of hangs over my head like a big, dark cloud.

But I don't think it's right for people to act like we are all potential mass murderers.

After Newtown, I was seeing all kinds of posts on Facebook that implied that mentally ill people are dangerous. This guy was saying we walk around every day next to mentally ill people who are capable of killing.

I responded and said something like "And you walk around each day conversing with and doing business with mentally ill people who are productive members of society, and you have no idea who they are."

He responded with, "You have no idea what I think."

???

OK. What I meant was the person right next to you, who you admire, who you have done business with for years, who you think of as an ordinary guy or gal, might possible be mentally ill. So why lump us all together because of this guy in CT?

Really irritated me when the guy said, "You have no idea what I think." And a few people came on there blasting me, saying I was wrong and mentally ill people need to be dealt with, and why was I defending this kid in CT. As if I was defending him.

And, yes, it's a big tragedy. But I think it's wrong to act like this guy was totally at fault. Not that it was someone else's fautl because it wasn't. It was the fault of his illness. He slid into the fire and couldn't find a way out.