Sorry this isn’t actually a flame, but the thread to which it relates, which appeared in this forum, was closed yesterday.
jab1, I apologize for my imprudent remarks regarding wishing harm to come to your loved ones. I apologize not under some fear of being reprimanded or banned, but because it was the wrong thing to say (although for the right reasons).
I still maintain that if you are, as you say, in the habit of misattributing or misrepresenting people’s statements, you cannot be shocked when someone gets angry at you for it.