To be fair, there is someone who 100% deserves to be shot
this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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If you've never thought about shooting someone, then on what basis can you even say that shooting someone is wrong?
Only 7% on any given day, right?
Have you like seen any movies played any video games like what?
just one?
call me when you find out how many have lists.
I've never thought about shooting anyone else. Does thinking about shooting myself count to the statistic? I've definitely thought about that before!
Why wouldn't it?
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
Here is the actual study, and the questionnaire they used can be found attached as Supplement 1
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2846565
With someone, you mean a really long list?
Approximately 1/3 of Americans own guns.
7% seems low just because so far as I can tell it's 7% of adults in American not 7% of those who own guns.
I haven't ever fantasized about shooting someone. Throttling them to death? Yeah. Dropping a piano on someone? Certainly. Shooting them? No. For one thing I don't want to clean up a shooting. But for another at the point where you're wanting to kill someone or maim them a gun is just impersonal and hands off. I'm not a murderer. I would absolutely have to be pushed to that point.
But I have met quite a few people who really do just want to shoot someone. They are looking for a reason.
When was this poll taken?
Years ago, or within the last few years?
i had thoughts like that, then later realised my ex boss doesnt deserve a fast death
If it weren't with a firearm it'd be with a crossbow, a knife, ball peen hammer, concrete saw, etc.
Thinking about shooting’s kinda weird tho. Like, some won’t shut the fk up and you’re thinking about slapping them or strangling them? Yes lol
A lot of would-be film directors out there!