I am so glad you complained.....thank you! That is unacceptable.

Regarding violence and mental illness, it sadly is a REAL problem. Not everyone with mental illness has aggression and violence as a symptom but to deny it exists just because you personally have not experienced it does little to help the individuals, family members and society who deals with it. We must speak openly about mental illness and all of the symptoms which can present. We need to be able to be open and honest, not deny and sweep it under the rug. My husband worked in a state hospital for many years with the sickest of the sick.......he was attacked and assaulted 30 times by people with REAL mental illness. Being violent does not always mean a person is evil, sometimes they are sick. Evil is figurative and not an answer.

Yes, we want to protect our reputations and not be lumped in with people who have different symptoms than we but we don’t need to deny other people’s sucfering to validate our own. This shooting was not religiously motivated and I personally believe it’s more re likely than not that this man had mental illness. Not the same kind as me, but mental illness all the same. Sane people do not shoot up churches.