According to a friend of the Tucson Arizona gunman Jared Loughner, he was oddly obsessed with numerous so-called conspiracy theories. While reports have not yet been confirmed, the media is reporting that Loughner was and avid follower of such beliefs as, the governments involvement in the September 11 attacks, a New World order, government mind control the Zeitgeist documentary and yes, the 2012 prophecies. Whether or not this proves to be true, it does bring up a major concern.

How many other mentally unstable people with a belief in the coming events of 2012 will take action in the upcoming months and years, and how will the media portray other 2012 believers?

Whether you are obsessed or simply intrigued by the 2012 prophecies doesn’t necessarily make you a mentally unstable person. I have been researching the possibilities surrounding 2012 for over 12 years, and I have watched the Zeitgeist documentary several times, but I have no desire to force my beliefs on anyone. Although I believe that conditions are right for a major change in 2012, my concerns lie solely on the safety and protection of my family, and not on the preemptive destruction of my fellow man.

People like Jared Loughner and balloon boys’ father Richard Heene are simply nut jobs. Just because these types of people live among us and believe in a coming event that just so happens to coincide with myself and millions of other people around the world, does not make us all nut jobs as well.

I hope the courts and media will portray this man for who he is and not lump all 2012 believers into a single group of mentally deranged doomsayers. I receive enough threats and hate mail; I don’t need anymore.