Millions of Americans have thought about shooting someone, a new University of Michigan study finds. And if they didn’t already own a firearm, some of them have thought about getting one to make their thoughts a reality.
Over 7% of adults in the United States say that at some time in their life, they have thought about shooting someone else. That percentage corresponds to 19.4 million people.
Over 3%, or about 8.7 million adults, said they have thought of shooting someone in the last year.
Firearm owners were no more likely to have had these thoughts than those who don’t own firearms, according to the findings published in the journal JAMA Network Open and based on a nationally representative survey.
Learn more about the study through the Michigan Medicine Health Lab blog
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