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Originally Posted by MrFlorida
True, but there are more armed criminals out there that want to do you harm than law abiding citizens going off the deep end...
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That seems pretty scary. Are there armed criminals in the room with you now?
I've been living in The Villages for 7 years, and haven't ever met anyone who has tried to do me harm, with or without a firearm.
I am confident, without any actual data to provide, that most people treated for mental disorders (aka "going off the deep end") are not armed criminals. So that would make them "law abiding citizens" who do not go off the deep end. And that would also mean that the armed criminals who want to do me harm, are in the minority even among people with mental disorders.
MOST people - with or without mental disorders - are not armed criminals who want to do me harm. Seven years living in Boston, over 30 years living in Connecticut, seven years currently living in The Villages, one year living elsewhere in Florida in my 20's...and the only attacks I've ever been victim of was a girl punching me once on the bus in elementary school because she heard I didn't like her, and then in high school when another girl pushed me up against the gym locker room wall because she heard I liked her boyfriend (who didn't know I even existed).
Addendum: after the girl on the bus got suspended, she approached me and thanked me for 3 days off from school and that any time I wanted someone beat up, to let her know, she owed me one. We were on friendly terms with each other from then on.