guns tense things up.

Not typically among people who are regularly exposed to them

When you think of a gun chances are what comes to mind first isn't going to be something you want to think about.

No, I think of the handgun in my nightstand, my father's hunting rifle, my cop brother's electronic gun safe, my friend's revolver, and my former drug dealer's shotgun

... a lot of depressed people not going out.

I've held that same handgun to my head and contemplated pulling the trigger, and I'm no closer to understanding what you mean by this

If we can take those thoughts away and replace them with good ones yeah I think we would be better off.

Seems like we could accomplish the same with universal gun safety classes/ positive exposure in k-12 (and greater access to no-cost therapy)

Kinda interesting you chose to make this about me when there are many other ways this convo could have gone.

I think you're in the minority for feeling this way. Just because you're stating it as if it's a universal truth doesn't make it so. It's a personal feeling you shared- I didn't make it about you.

Australia did it and every one of those fuckers I run into are hilarious and idk if it's correlated or not but hey maybe let's just try it out and see.

You got me there- if it makes everyone funny, that might be worth it