Firearm-related thoughts, and the potential for action to prevent people from acting on those thoughts impulsively, are the subject of a new nationally representative study.
Well because there’s a difference between saying “wow my life sucks, I could really go for a bullet sandwich right now” and “wow that guy sucks, I should shoot him”
Ooh and the question specifically mentions “someone else.” By the time I scrolled down enough, I forgot about that.
Anyway I have both considered offing myself, and on a night where a dude scared me on a dark street I wished I had a gun. I guess that’s not the same as wanting to shoot him. I just wanted to have something that would make him as scared of me as I was of him. I just wanted to be left alone.
Well because there’s a difference between saying “wow my life sucks, I could really go for a bullet sandwich right now” and “wow that guy sucks, I should shoot him”
Ooh and the question specifically mentions “someone else.” By the time I scrolled down enough, I forgot about that.
Anyway I have both considered offing myself, and on a night where a dude scared me on a dark street I wished I had a gun. I guess that’s not the same as wanting to shoot him. I just wanted to have something that would make him as scared of me as I was of him. I just wanted to be left alone.
That counts as a yes