When I told my sister, who is in her 70s and lived in rural Ohio, that I bought a gun, she was appalled and thinks of me as some kind of criminal. She wouldn't talk to me after that.

Also, when I told a friend that certain "People" gave me trouble EVERYTIME I went out, she called me Prejudice. I never had these problems with people of my own race, Never, EVER. Instead of understanding that there ARE evil people out there, she blamed me for Feeling how I do now after DOZENS of incidents. A few where I almost got hurt. I have certainly been pshycologically injured by these events. I have to PLAN the times I go out to when not many people are on the roads or in the stores, Mid week, Mid afternoon.