<br/>America’s Private Revenge Theater: Why Millions of Americans Have Imagined Shooting Someone (opens in new tab)

America now contains millions of people carrying around tiny private revenge films in their heads. Not plans, necessarily. Not manifestos. Often just flashes. A face. A humiliation. A fantasy of force arriving where helplessness used to be. Researchers recently found that 7.3% of adults in the United States have seriously thought about shooting another person at some point in their lives. That translates to roughly 19.4 million people. More than 8 million reported having these thoughts within...