(August 27, 2015 at 7:02 pm)Napoléon Wrote: I know for a fact that I've had some dark times in my life too, and I can tell you right now if my parents had a gun in the household like they likely would if we were a yankee family, I don't know if I'd still be here typing this today. Bottom line is guns make shit a hell of a lot easier. If I were to kill myself, I'd 100% choose a gun to do it. Only thing stopping me from jumping off a bridge already or smashing my car into oncoming traffic is that I'm a coward. A gun would eliminate a lot of that doubt and fear. It would take a lot less to pull a trigger than to slit my wrists.
And that's why Rhythm has a point and is wrong at the same time.
Right, because the gun doesn't change who you are. Wrong because having a gun makes it easier to act on impulses. A knife is up close and personal and so is strangulation or any other method a sick mind can come up with. Pulling a trigger doesn't require to get physical.
A point that many forensic psychologists make and is also made in the book "On killing", written by David Grossman. A book that Rhythm, by his own account, had to read as part of his military education.