No, I never pulled a gun on anyone at church

A comment is making the rounds, so let me put this lie down before it hardens into "fact."

Under one of my posts, a man named Leland Combs wrote, in public:

"…at least she didnt go storm the capital and then try ruining people because your life was ruined. At least she didnt pull a gun out on someone at church either."

There it is — the claim that I "pulled a gun out on someone at church." It is false.

No gun was ever pulled. Not drawn, not brandished, not pointed at anyone. Period.

I've already given my full account of what happened that Mother's Day, and I stand on every word of it: read the full account →. The one fact that matters for this particular lie is simple — I never drew a weapon on another human being. I am the one who called the police.

Here is why I will answer even a throwaway comment: this is how a lie travels now. One person types it, strangers repeat it, and a few weeks later people say it like it is established fact. I have already lived through a false story being written about me while the truth had to claw its way out afterward. Not this time.

If you are going to tell the public that a man pulled a gun on someone inside a church, the burden is on you to prove it. There is no report that says it. There is no victim of it — because it did not happen. The record will show exactly that.

I am not asking anyone to go after anybody. I am asking for the truth to stand on its own. It does.

— Ryan Nichols