Actually, I never met her. She had been chronically ill for years. I've seen her night nurse on smoke breaks when walking my dog in the evenings. When I saw a fire truck, the EMTs, and five sheriff's cars drive up Sunday afternoon, I guessed that it probably meant that she had died. (We got confirmation from her family yesterday.) Sad but not unexpected.

And, yeah, the gun stuff these days has gone beyond anything rational into the land of teh crazee excess.