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This is a very sad incident indeed. My condolences to victims and families.
Again we see another mass shooting where medication is involved. Let us not ignore the elephant in the room.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i72zWlWRLvc1ejGI5WpefItEjKCAD8UQS7A81
"NIU Gunman Stopped Taking Medication
By CARYN ROUSSEAU and DEANNA BELLANDI – 1 hour ago
DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — The man who gunned down five people at Northern Illinois University in a suicidal rampage became erratic after halting his medication and carried a shotgun to campus inside a guitar case, police said Friday."
Here is another link:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9e7_1197058450
"Robert Hawkins, the 19 year old who killed himself and eight other people with an assault rifle last night in Omaha, Nebraska had a history of treatment with psychiatric drugs for depression and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and was on prozac according to press reports .
Of course the headlines will once again focus on how evil and dangerous guns are, how the second amendment should be reevaluated and will once again ignore the fact that this young man was subject to dangerous brain altering chemicals for a number of years prior to this tragic incident.
Hawkins is the latest in a long line of shooters all of which were on prescribed antidepressants before they suddenly snapped and decided to kill as many people as they could before taking their own lives.
Investigators believe that Cho Seung Hui, the Virginia Tech murderer, had been taking anti-depressant medication at some point before the shootings last April, according to The Chicago Tribune .
Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, as well as 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, the Oregon killer who gunned down his parents and classmates, were all on psychotropic drugs.
Jeff Weise, the Red Lake High School killer was on prozac , "Unabomber" Ted Kaczinski, Michael McDermott, John Hinckley, Jr., Byran Uyesugi, Mark David Chapman and Charles Carl Roberts IV, the Amish school killer, were all on SSRI psychotropic drugs.
Antidepressant drugs have never been tested on children nor approved by the FDA for use on children, however, Scientific studies proving that prozac encourages suicidal tendencies in young people are voluminous and span back nearly a decade.
In 2005, it was revealed that Eli Lilly had full knowledge of a 1200% increase in suicide risk for takers of their Prozac. This evidence came in the wake of findings published in the British Medical Journal a year previously. "
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Here is a long list of folks who were otherwise peaceful until they started antidepressants and turned violent:
http://ssri-uksupport.com/files/homicidesSSRISandADHDmedications.pdf
An example of data here:
Christopher Pittman, aged 12, (Paxil then Zoloft). Known amongst family as 'pop-pops shadow', hehad always been very close to his grandfather. Shortly after being prescribed Zoloft he shot both hisgrandparents dead and burned the house down. Imprisoned, he waited 3 years for trial, and was thentried as an adult - a practice acceptable in the USA.
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Perhaps we need to look to the medical profession to provide a solution rather than blaming an inanimate object like a gun...
Can a case be made that a doc mis-prescribed or carelessly prescribed a med causing violence and be held responsible? Makes more sense to me than going after the gun.
Big pharma regularly perks docs for prescribing more of their meds. Foe example a trip to a "conference" in Hawaii for big prescribers. Ample ground for corruption and unneeded prescriptions there...
The other thing that would be helpful is if the docs who prescribed the meds to the shooters could be identified and be able to take a good look at the shooters records to try and determine if the prescription was warranted. As I understand it, these docs are shielded behind HIPAA
A doc with a prescription pad in this day of big pharma/govt collusion can be just as dangerous as a gun, butcher knife or chainsaw in the wrong hands.
