Why More Americans Want to Own Guns

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Yet surprisingly little population-level evidence supports the notion that individuals diagnosed with mental illness are more likely than anyone else to commit gun crimes. According to Appelbaum,25 less than 3% to 5% of US crimes involve people with mental illness, and the percentages of crimes that involve guns are lower than the national average for persons not diagnosed with mental illness. Databases that track gun homicides, such as the National Center for Health Statistics, similarly show that fewer than 5% of the 120 000 gun-related killings in the United States between 2001 and 2010 were perpetrated by people diagnosed with mental illness.

Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms

Here's the deal with mental illness. Practically anything can labeled a mental disorder. Oppositional defiant disorder is diagnosed for people that don't obey authority. In fact you could say if you don't trust the government you suffer from that. Adding to that if you think the government would take your guns away if your are mentally, you might be diagnossed with paranoia and Oppositional defiant disorder, which results in them taking your guns away.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-condi...n-20024559

Then there is Orthorexia nervosa which means being obsessed with eating healthy. You don't like GMO, and prefer organic, well fuck you, you are cutting in to Monsanto's profits, so you also lose your guns.

Then we have S.A.D.S, sudden adult down syndrome, which most Americans have after watching MSNBC, so they willing give up their guns haha