Found a 7 percenter ^

Yep, what a load of bollocks, the only thing this study is useful for is why would you do this.

Yeah it all depends on the wording and how honest they are. Sometimes I’m frustrated enough to get all sorts of dark thought to inflict on them. But I have impulse control.

One of the reasons we need better gun control is too many people don’t. Or maybe too many people live in fear enough to escalate to deadly violence

I'd say 93% are lying.

Call of the void

Absolutely, there’s a huge difference between thinking about doing something and then letting the thought go compared to doing anything on the path to actually doing it.

I often used to have intrusive violent or sexual thoughts about strangers I'd see out in the world. They were unwanted and I found them horrifying, and of course would never do anything like that to anyone. Medication eventually helped.

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I can honestly say I've never wanted to shoot, stab, or otherwise greviously injure someone. I've gotten into some fistfights when emotions have gotten out of hand, but this is maybe why its important that everyone is not running around with a way to blast holes in people.

lol I immediately thought of this:

If America didn't have such a fetish for guns it would be %7 of people thought about stabbing someone or something

As a Canadian, I have never thought about shooting anyone, but I have thought about people being shot by someone else who is in no way affiliated with me! Lol

This only make sense of the question was while caring a loaded gun.

Based on how the question is phrased, it can be very open to interpretation.

I've thought all kinds of sick thoughts along the lines of "I could push this person in front of the arriving metro", or "I'm holding a kitchen knife, if I were to stab the other person in the kitchen there's nothing they could do about it". When I was in the army, and we were at the shooting range, I could get thoughts about how easy it would be to shoot a whole load of people. Of course, I never consider doing those things. I'm talking about people I would lay down my life to protect, and I still get these thoughts.

I was very relieved when I read somewhere that this is fairly normal, and some researchers ascribed it to a protection mechanism: Their theory (which they provided some evidence for), was that be evoking these thoughts, your brain makes you more aware of acute potential dangers, so that you can act more carefully to avoid them. Basically, by becoming conscious that you could push/stab/shoot someone, you handle your movement/knife/firearm more carefully to avoid doing so by accident.

So: Have I thought about shooting someone? Plenty of times. Have I considered shooting someone? Never.

Only 7% makes me think people are interpreting the question as "would you admit on the phone to seriously considering shooting another person".

jew! jew! shoot them all!

Why wouldn't it?