Smoking Gun pointed at the Giant White Elephant in the Corner.

[shoelace009]

Those of you who have been around for a while know that I have a serious depression issue. I'm a workaholic and a college student and a person with a lot of things to be thankful for. Yet, I have bouts of depression that are a bit similar to an emotional drowning. I'm kind of in the middle of one of them so for both my sake and yours I don't care

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Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Guns have a tendency to ... want fingers. And targets. You really have to be in control to handle one safely. And some guns will try to talk you out of safely.

Good luck with the elephant and the smoking gun. It's a challenge. You have my sympathy.

Re: Yes...

[shoelace009]

Yeah I am not a big fan of them for the same way I stay away from heights and anything else incredibly dangerous. It only takes some sort of spontaneous act or mistake to ruin everything. I never would but I'm not comfortable with opportunities.

Re: Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Very prudent. It's like choosing not to have alcohol in the house, when someone living there has had a problem with it. Staying away from it is just safer.

If the family situation is conducive to open communication, it might help to talk about the importance of keeping guns locked away -- which is a good idea anyhow. I don't own any, I don't have a problem with them, but I did learn a bunch of the basic rules. #1 is that your gun is your responsibility, you must ALWAYS be in control of it.

[wytchcroft]

i dub thee Lee Harvey Shoelace

[exsrl920]

it's quite alot like looking down a chasm.
it's a long way down when you take a peek.
and then the thought "all it would take..."
i have a hard enough time trying to live.
i keep distance from that part of myself.
as well as the means to help that part if i would so choose.