This has been a case of the worst kinds of mass hysteria. Despite some of my students' insistence that children have been abducted and people have been killed all throughout America from roving groups of insane clowns, the truth is that no such thing has happened. The only victim to date was a young man that was stabbed to death for wearing a clown mask (and it wasn't even covering his face). People need to read the Crucible again and learn what happens from witch hunts.
I feel the deepest pity for you if you have learned to dislike or distrust clowns, because I personally know a number of great people who are clowns and who bring others joy and happiness, as well as a good laugh: the cure for so many ills.