In light of the school shooting in Florida, here's a list of people who were on anti-depressants when they committed violence.
Guns are not the problem. Guns are inanimate objects, and as we've seen all around the globe, you can be killed by a truck just as easily as you can with a gun. What is causing these people to kill others? In the case of muslims, it's their belief in a Satanic death cult. But in the case of kids who've been fed medication.... maybe it's the meds.
I'll also point you once again to John Ringo's essay about Cymbalta.
Nobody really knows how the brain works. We can see functions and actions and say "OK, if we do X then Y happens", but we still don't know WHY. Adding drugs that screw with the dopamine and serotonin receptors WILL cause side effects, and God knows that we've been doping kids up with all kinds of SSRI inhibitors, or anti-depressants, or anti-psychotics for years now. I think we'll continue to see more of this than less, because too many people focus on the gun and not the actual issue. They're focusing on the symptoms, and not the cause.
2 comments:
I trace much of this trouble back to the early 70's when moronic and well-meaning liberals opening the doors to nuthouses and letting them go. Put them on medication and of course trusting that they would keep up with it because they said they would.
Only a moron would let violent people on the street on the "promise" they would take medication.
While there had been abuses in the state hospital system the insane level of violence we have seen since this time is evidence enough that putting nuts on the street is NOT a good idea.
I am afraid however that once the genie is out of the bottle we will play hell with putting it back in. The democraps made this happen and totally own it. Just one more reason to not vote for a democrat - as if you needed any more.
Bolivar
Yep. Working in the hospital, we had to deal with all the crazies at least once a month. They would come in when their checks ran out, or when they got kicked out of whatever place they were living, and they'd come in saying they had the "DT's" or some bullshit. They just wanted a warm bed. As soon as they could, they were right back out getting high, or drunk, or whatever.
By getting rid of the mental hospitals, we've turned mental illness into a criminal problem, because now when you see Johnny Schizo staggering down the street talking to the voices in his head, you call the cops. But the cops aren't there to deal with mental illness. They don't have the facilities. And it does Johnny no good to be in jail, when he needs to be in a padded room.
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