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Originally Posted by Elspode
I took my Ruger out of its case, loaded it, and looked at it for a long time. Then I thought about everyone I knew, my friends, my son...my future, bleak though it seemed. And I put it away. Nothing so dramatic as putting the barrel in my mouth or up against my temple. Nothing so close as a single twitch on the trigger to dispatch my suffering. But I *saw* it, for the first time, in my mind, as a possibility. And I never wondered again how people could take their own lives.
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I don't want to bring up any politics with this question, but did this raise the possibility of getting the gun out of the house? Possibly even temporarily?
Brave thread, by the way.