After Jodi Arias: Have you ever been so angry or afraid that you

[sinkingfeeling]

actually thought of killing someone? I went through some pretty ugly break-ups and some personal ugliness when I was younger, but I didn't think of murder. I once thought about tossing his clothes outside and burning them, but not about taking a kitchen knife and stabbing him to death.

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	Yes, I've come close to murdering somebody.
	0 (0%)
	Yes, I've given serious thought to committing murder.
	0 (0%)
	No, I've dealt with things differently.
	3 (75%)
	No, it has never occurred to me.
	1 (25%)
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[Aristus]

1. No. Death is irrevocable.

There are no brownie points for remorse.

Find another outlet for one's rage and frustration, and one has options. Kill the object of your anger, and you have none.

[Taverner]

2. I've been tempted to break every window in the house

I've been tempted to take a baseball bat to a car

But never to a person

[olddots]

3. A persistant thought ?

No but I have thought that if I wasn't alive things would be better but how could I know if they were better if I wasn't alive .

I have thought that the "news bizz" should be killed though .

[pipi_k]

4. Would have chosen

"other" if it had been listed...

I've never come close to committing murder (#1) and I've never actually given serious thought to committing murder (#2) but I have had passing thoughts.

It was the guy who sexually molested my daughter.

I'm pretty sure he's the only one.

So anyway, like I said, I didn't give serious thought to murder, but I did give serious thought to committing some severe bodily harm on him. I honestly don't know what kept me from leaping on him and trying to rip his eyeballs out with my bare hands.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. I've been through a few bad break-ups, but doing physical harm

didn't come to mind. Most people just pick up the pieces and go on.

[NewJeffCT]

6. No, it's been the opposite for me

I've had suicidal thoughts in the past, but never thought of hurting anybody else. I tend to think bad things in my life are primarily my fault (probably why I have so many grey hairs...)

[Phentex]

7. No. Retreat is what I do cause I don't want to even see them again to have to kill them...

When I am really angry or the line has been crossed, the person is erased in my mind. Tracking them down to kill them would be having to see them again.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

8. I can understand someone killing out of fear...particularly if it is not premeditated.

I think some people have stronger 'survival' instincts than others. Arias didn't kill out of fear...it was anger, that is inexcusable. imo

My ex could make me almost blind with rage...he is still alive, because I never contemplated killing him, it was less messy to simply leave.

[HappyMe]

10. I agree.

Nobody, no matter what, is worth my freedom. I don't think I have it in me to take somebody's life.

Arias didn't just killl that guy - she slaughtered him.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

11. Exactly!

Freedom is just too precious!

Yes, it was a slaughter...gruesome.

[Xyzse]

9. I've never had an especially bad break up

All break ups are in essence bad in a way.
So no, that has never happened with me.

Only times I have seriously contemplated violence is when I feel trapped. I don't succumb to it, but I learned how to just walk out before I do anything I would regret.

Seriously, if a person feels strongly enough to walk out, it is best to let them. It will more than likely save someone's neck.

[hunter]

12. I've done a few dumb-ass things that could have gotten me murdered.

As a supposedly mature responsible adult I try to avoid those situations now.

I worry about my kids and have tried to teach them to avoid those situations too.

Twice in my testosterone-poisoned youth I've thrown rocks at people, the first was at a bully who had already beat me up several times and thrown me into the mud for wearing "faggot clothes." The other time was at a guy who was breaking into my car.

The second time scared me. The rock just missed the guy's head and he ran off absolutely terrified. It occurred to me I might have killed him. It was horrible. Nothing in my car, nor the car itself, justified my violence. The poor fellow was probably just a junkie looking for something to sell for a fix.

My girlfriend at the time had not renounced violence, which is why I broke up with her. That was the same night she hand-cuffed her girlfriend's pimp-boyfriend to a urinal and beat the hell out of him as I was standing watch outside the restroom door mumbling something about rough sex. She did get her girlfriend into a recovery program, but I was never the same after that.

I'm deeply afraid the berserker gene is strong in me. As a kid I saw my mom take a loaded rifle away from some asshole, expertly unload it, and break it against a bolder. My mom was also pretty good at throwing knives and other kitchen utensils when she lost her temper. My mom's mom was a step beyond that and became a danger to herself and others when she got older and somewhat demented. My great grandma was a hard woman of the wild west who lived in a cabin with a wood stove, no plumbing, and two 40 watt electric lamps. She wouldn't have had electricity but for rural electrification and my great grandfather's fascination with radio. He was dead when I came along, but my great grandma still resented electricity. Her electric bill was always the minimum service charge and she only left it connected at the insistence of her family.

I used to be fascinated by how quickly my great grandma could cut up fish, birds, or small mammals for dinner. The evening she threatened my dad with her big kitchen knife I had no doubts she could chop up a man as well.

[tabbycat31]

13. I went through a pretty ugly breakup

But I never once thought of killing him. Never crossed my mind.

Destroying his reputation, yes (and I have a lot of reason to believe that he destroyed mine), but never taking his life. Do I still want to tell him off and where to shove it? Yes.

I was also 1000 miles away during the worst of things, so any physical harm that I might have been tempted to do was stopped by the distance.

[HeiressofBickworth]

14. When I learned that one of my neighbors

molested one of my family, I desperately wanted to cut off his balls and hang them on his front door ----- but I didn't.

Instead, I worked with the prosecuting attorney and a local news reporter to be sure he was exposed, prosecuted and jailed. I circulated petitions and worked with the parole board to keep him in prison (didn't work, but thanks anyway). And when he got out of prison, he and the state that licensed the daycare in which this happened were sued. The case was settled with just enough money to cover years worth of therapy for the child.

But I still wanted to punch the fucker in the face -- but I didn't.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

15. Afraid enough, yes.

It was one time sleeping on the streets in Tucson. My SO was in the VA Hospital, very sick. The Meds were messing with this stomach so bad he was throwing up blood. I had a person call 911 and he went in. I did not have a "Obamaphone" (Street slang) yet, so I was lucky someone was in the park that did.

Well, I was in a small place between some buildings when some guy stumbled on me. I had my knife with me at the ready due to some creepy collies. He wanted to have some fun, I did not. He also had a knife.

I don't know how I kept my head, but I remembered everything my Uncle taught me about Hand to Hand with a knife. You see, he was a Viet Nam Army Vet. He wanted to make sure that I could protect myself from guys that were beyond pushy, so he taught me how to defend myself.

Well, it was lucky for both of us that he could tell that I knew what I was doing. He also seemed to relies he did not know how to defend himself in a knife fight and backed off.

I was scared enough for my own life that I would have killed to save it.

What is painful to think about is that I did hear a couple of days later is that he (At lest I think it was him because it happened not far from my spot) did hurt another woman that night. I have many mixed feeling over the event.

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[Demoiselle]

16. I've thrown stuff. Never directly at somebody, but fairly noisily. Haven't gone any farther...

[csziggy]

17. No, the people who made me angry enough I wished them gone forever

Harmed themselves through their own misdeeds. So I got the unhealthy satisfaction of knowing that they did not prosper by their evil without having the bad karma of having done anything to bring about their downfalls.

[BainsBane]

18. there is a difference between thinking about something

and seriously thinking about it.

[LadyHawkAZ]

19. Yes

Right after my ex raped me.

If he hadn't left town so quickly, I might very well have tried it, too. I was pretty angry.