Science Just Destroyed One of the left’s Favorite Gun Lies
Mental illness isn’t driving gun ownership—and the data proves it.
An excellent and informative article from Conservative Ladies of America - DD
One of the biggest arguments we hear from “gun control” advocates is that gun violence is a mental health issue. They tell us if we could just keep firearms away from people with mental illness, our communities would be safer. It’s a talking point repeated after every major shooting and echoed by lawmakers pushing for red flag laws, expanded registries, bans on firearms and more invasive background checks.
But now, a new study is challenging that entire narrative.
Published in Psychological Reports, this research takes a hard look at whether mental illness actually drives firearm ownership or carrying in the United States. And what it finds may come as a surprise—unless, of course, you’ve been saying all along what many Second Amendment advocates already know.
Spoiler: It’s not mental illness that predicts gun ownership. It’s culture. It’s life experience. It’s personal background—not clinical diagnosis.
The study’s author, Miranda Baumann, is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia State University and a research fellow for the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health. She analyzed data from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. The data included a wide range of information—clinical diagnoses, treatment history, suicidal behavior, personal trauma, religious background, childhood environment, and more.
So, what did she find?
In short, mental illness—regardless of…
Yeah. Every mass shooter was medicated to the gills and in therapy. Hate to tinfoil hat this whole thing, but someone overmedicated could be extremely open to suggestions. Hypnotherapy is in the wheelhouse of psychology. So these things all taken in context together paint a very interesting picture.