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Is the US ready to consider anti-psychotic drugs as the cause of mass shootings or are we still blaming the gun? - 655 - 05-12-2014 08:37 AM
- 470 - 05-12-2014 08:46 AM
It is much more profitable for the cause of tyranny to promote the use of drugs that cause people to go on violent rampages, then blame the rampage on the gun so you can disarm the population.
Then when your first efforts to disarm the people results in more crime due to fewer guns available for self defense, you blame guns for the rise in crime, then you take away some more.
You keep doing that until only the crooks and the crazies have guns.
Then the police state can take over, and the free citizens are powerless to stop it.
That's the liberal utopia.
- Tad Dubious - 05-12-2014 08:48 AM
I'm US, Clown, and I just took a poll of the other US: we're still sticking with PEOPLE commit mass shootings. We call them murderers. We are not in favor of these folk or their actions. Peace.
- ? - 05-12-2014 08:54 AM
Liberals will blame the firearms and Gun Owners will blame criminals and Nutzoids.
- Nobody - 05-12-2014 09:07 AM
We cannot stop side effects of drugs any better than we can stop the side effects of using guns to solve anger issues.
- RiteWngr - 05-12-2014 09:08 AM
The drug industry is huge and profitable. The gun industry is tiny.
Do you really think the politicians will really let that Constitution thingy get in the way of a good "campaign contribution"?
- Thomas - 05-12-2014 09:19 AM
I think so.
Tell the Obama Administration to ask the Supreme Court to hear Drake v Jerejian and final decide on the constitutionality of "justifiable need clauses" and to recognize once and for all the right to carry a firearm outside the home.
Sign the petition and redistribute:
http://wh.gov/lwiOY
- L.T.M. - 05-12-2014 09:33 AM
I am. The evidence is overwhelming.
https://www.google.com/search?q=link+between+drugs+and+mass+shootings&oq=connection+between+drugs+and+mass+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.42113j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8
http://www.storyleak.com/flashback-virtually-mass-shootings-linked-violence-inducing-psych-drugs/
Emergency Room visits involving nonmedical use of Central Nervous System Stimulants (CNS) among adults aged 18-34 increased from 5,605 in 2005 to 22,949 in 2011. CNS drugs include prescription ADHD drugs.
According to IMS Health, there has been a 22% increase in the number of Americans on psychiatric drugs since 2002, with over 77 million people currently taking them—that’s one in four Americans.
A total of 8.2 million children under 18 are taking psychiatric drugs in the U.S.
There are over 40 million Americans taking antidepressants – a 15% increase since 2002. Of these, 2 million are children under 18.
Since 2002, the number of Americans on ADHD drugs has gone up by 94% with over 10 million currently taking them.
According to the CDC, 11 percent of school-age children have been diagnosed with ADHD and there are now 4.7 million children under 18 in the U.S. taking ADHD drugs, per IMS Health.
The total number of Americans on antipsychotics has increased by 40% since 2002.
All antidepressants carry the FDA’s “Black Box†warning, alerting the public that antidepressants may increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children and young adults. A “Black Box†warning is the FDA’s most serious prescription drug warning.
Finally, the US military has seen an increase in the number of suicides, with a record 349 in 2012, far exceeding the number of American combat deaths. According to the Military Times, at least one in six service members (17%) is on some form of psychiatric drug.
According to the Defense Logistics Agency, between 2001 and 2009, the overall use of psychiatric drugs increased by 76%. During the same time, antidepressant use increased 40%.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/dramatic-increase-of-mass-shootings-in-america-the-role-of-prescription-psychiatric-drugs/5358896
- Aizen - 05-12-2014 09:48 AM
Just a thought, but if there weren't as many people on anti-psychotics then we'd have a lot more shootings and the drugs really help a portion of the population live better lives.
The link between perpetrators of shootings and anti-psychotics is dubious. They were on anti-psychotics for a reason and were probably under-medicated. But they can paradoxically make you crazier if you're unlucky.