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A major part of the issue of assuming someone who does something horrific like the Vegas Shooting or the Texas Church shooting is mentally ill, is that it paints the mentally ill as violent, when in reality, the mentally ill are more likely to be victimized then be an aggressor. It creates a fear of those who are mentally ill that is unfair and can make an already challenging life, more challenging. Generalization and scapegoating.
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"Do you know what’s really scary? You want to forget something. Totally wipe it off your mind. But you never can. It can’t go away, you see. And… and it follows you around like a ghost."
~ A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa, Hongryeon) (2003)
"I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I’ve always felt that I wasn’t a member of any particular group."
~ Anne Rice
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