Any mind-altering substance could be a factor in acts of violence. Could be alcohol, illegal drugs, or legal drugs. And sometimes the person doesn't need any additional stimuli to bring out violent behavior. There is nothing controversial in that statement.Broad-brushing SSRI's as the cause to shootings might alienate some of your fellow INGO members.
Just FYI.
It is not unheard of or a paranoid stretch to say that many anti depressants actually do the opposite of help in young adults and children. It is actually stated at the end of the advertisement when they quickly run through the possibility of explosive diarrhea, hairy tongue, driving walking or using machinery while sleeping without remembering, or death as possible but uncommon side effects of some of this mess. Look up increased risk of suicide associated with anti depressant use in young adults and children. How far apart are suicidal and homicidal in the world of drugged up kids? It is not a leap to say that as a society, we are over medicating our children and there are consequences.
Read the side effects on antidepressants...teenage brains and young adult brains are wired different than mature adults...I do believe these drugs cause a problem...but I also believe that mental health officials, parents and others around young adults and teen who use these drugs or have mental health issues should be more active in observing what these kids are doing...and should be held accountable if they leave guns with in their reach, I mean if you are a parent or room mate and someone you know who has mental health issues and are receiving tons of shipments for gun and ammo...you should get involved, professionals should be able to call the police when their clients are talking about shooting people...hell with their rights at that point. The cops also need to take reports of suspected insane people buying guns more serious. Instead of saying our hands are tied can't do anything about it until they hurt them self or someone else.
Yes it does put some of us owning a gun at risk...but if you are mentally sound you should have nothing to worry about. Now this won't stop it all anyone can buy a gun off any street corner...but it might help put the spot light on the real issue of why most mass killings take place.
People want answers to why America is so violent, maybe this unfortunate statistic is a part of it.
We don't know, but finding out begins with a conversation.Or maybe it bears no relationship at all.
We don't really know, which is why I don't know what the purpose of this thread is.
Or maybe it bears no relationship at all.
We don't really know, which is why I don't know what the purpose of this thread is.
Claiming that correlation = causation is no different than people saying that more guns = more crime, as if there is some causal relationship between those two things.
You can be against prohibition and still speak against a particular societal habit. Alcohol is a good parallel.Blaming the drugs is the same thing as blaming the gun. People mis-use firearms. People mis-use drugs. The answer isn't in banning either one.
Or parents could start actually doing the hard work of parenting, instead of parenting from a bottle.
You can be against prohibition and still speak against a particular societal habit. Alcohol is a good parallel.
People in this country are drugged to absurd levels, particularly with psychotropic drugs. Nobody thinks about the side effects if nobody brings them up.
What do you care what other people are doing? I thought libertarians were a live-and-let-live kind of group.
This wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that you have a personal vendetta against the pharma industrial complex, would it?
Umm. I can give you TRILLIONS of reasons why the overdrugging of America is affecting me. Maybe you've heard of Medicare Part D? Obamacare, perhaps? Our government masterfully funnels our money directly into the pockets of whichever corporations lobbied the hardest.What do you care what other people are doing?
This is kind of logic you used when you told me that saying "Vote for _____" was anti-libertarian. The argument still makes no sense.I thought libertarians were a live-and-let-live kind of group.
No more than your personal affinity for it.This wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that you have a personal vendetta against the pharma industrial complex, would it?