Then flag me or tag in @orenwolf because at this point I feel harassed.
I edited the post, I reiterated that I agree mental illness has no correlation with violence to the multiple people who took issue, and things seemed to have settled.
Now you’re jumping in after all of that.
For context, this is an issue very very close to home for me,
So I’m sorry that I didn’t use perfect phrasing when discussing a highly emotional issue.
But as I said in my previous reply, I am not having the best mental health day myself. Not one person commented on that though, which hurts given that we’re allegedly up in arms because I deginerated those with mental health issues.
My intention was to say that some people do bad things because they are jerks, assholes or whatever other word we collectively decide is the best - the opposite of your perception.
I see now "disturbed" is not the way to denote that.
I have repeatedly clarified and apologized and your feedback is duly noted.
But unless you truly think harranguing someone who has had a spree killing happen in their own neighborhood is in the spirit of the boards, please stop beating a dead horse.
Ironically part of why I am reacting so strongly is because I was stereotyped post-Columbine, and much like this interaction would get hauled in to be told all the horrible things that could be done to me because someone decided to misperceive what I said. They wouldn’t actually punish me, nonono, just a long line of people getting extremely angry that my response was “Nope, that’s not what I meant, sorry you feel that way, if you want to punish me do so, just leave me alone” once it got to the 3rd or 4th one.
It was a poor choice of words, without ill intent, which I’ve repeatedly clarified and apologized for, but if one more person slides into my mentions it’ll be a really high ratio of people complaining about something I repeatedly apologized for vs ZERO who touched on the part where I said it was a bad mental health day for myself, leaving me struggling to be polite since I can’t help but feel like I’m being concern trolled.
As I have repeatedly said, I did not mean to imply all gun owners are mentally ill, or that being mentally ill makes someone a spree killer when I called spree killers “disturbed”.
I deeply, DEEPLY apologize for the error.
Now please, let’s drop it, OK?
