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."

The most important and effective rebuttal to these ignorant statement would be " and what about all the mentally healthy people we walk around every day next to who are capable of killing?" He response was one of pure ignorance. You called him out, and his simple mind had no repsonse to give.

There is no statistic out there that can stronly tie an increase in violent gun crimes in the mentally ill vs. mentally healthy. Think about it, you'd need to be of pretty sound mental health to plan some of these masterminded shootings and uncovered plots that have been publicized recently. Poeple don't just go and one day go off their meds and carry out a tactical assault on a school.