How crazy are some people?

[H2O Man]

7. That's easy.

You noted she had a chair and a gun. One of those two is how she got to the middle safely. It was not the chair.

As a long retired worker at the county mental health clinic, I was among a team that responded to "community crises." This frequently involved a human being experiencing psychosis. Among other possibilities, they may have stopped taking prescribed medication, they may be using other substances, or both. When a gun was involved, the police were called, and they took the lead in a coordinated effort to resolve the situation.

Over the decades, I've met many, many people. As a rule, no one I've known signed up for a major mental illness. (Some criminal defendents fake symptoms, hoping for an insanity defense. But those attempts fail.) Most of those I served that had major mental illnesses were decent people, and some about the best you could meet. But they have an illness.