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I'm 20 years away from you, I'll catch up to you soon!
Yeah do yourself a favor and follow my example; don't own a gun or allow one in the house. It's not that I don't know gun safety, or that I'm particularly inclined to use it even if it's around. However, statistically, it's been proven that the mere access/availability of a firearm increases the likelihoods that someone having a particularly bad depressive episode will use it to commit suicide. Knowing that, it's literally just not worth the risk.
That said, there is nothing wrong with owning a firearm in general. If your mental state is not one subject to depressive thoughts, ideation, or tendencies, as long as you're a responsible gun owner then so be it.