Anti-depressants

[barretcreek]

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-18/prescription-violence-corresponding-rise-antidepressants-ssris-mass-shootings

There are people who would argue strongly pro-SSRI.

[blackhawknj]

Yes, 50 years ago we had the guns, we didn't have the drugs.

[togor]

What's the ask here? To have the government undertake a study on the correlation between mass shootings and...anything?

[S.A. Boggs]

I have seen medication do the reverse of what it was intended to do. Remember the term "going postal" medication that did not do what it was intended/thought to do. Our nation is pill happy with a pill to do behavior modification when none is needed. A shortcut to behavior modification when other forms are more appropriate to use. Medicating children when children just need to be let out to play.
Sam

[retread12345]

There seems to be a link . Too many of these atrocities have a denominator. Usage of prescribed as well as decriminalized drugs Ann Coulter had an article last week
in TAKI's Column . about this very subject

[blackhawknj]

Their efficacy is "greatly exaggerated". The standard complaint is of the "side effects."

[lyman]

on another forum, someone posted a list of the 'Mass Shootings' in the past years (I wanna say 10, but may be mistaken)

2 things were prevalent,

the shooters, or if the shooter was too young to vote, were Democrats
and

the shooters were on anti depressants,

I wanna say it was 9 out of 10,,,


I'll see if I can find the chart

[blackhawknj]

We had the guns 50 years ago, getting a 22 at say 14 was a common rite of passage, plenty of M-1 Carbines were "liberated."

[barretcreek]

I think any studies would show a link between increased risk or incidence of suicide and use of SSRI drugs. Most spree killers end their rampage by committing suicide.

[togor]

on another forum, someone posted a list of the 'Mass Shootings' in the past years (I wanna say 10, but may be mistaken)

2 things were prevalent,

the shooters, or if the shooter was too young to vote, were Democrats
and

the shooters were on anti depressants,

I wanna say it was 9 out of 10,,,


I'll see if I can find the chart

Please do that so we can see it it was BS or not. Because the recent ones by middle aged white guys don't fit that bill, with the singular exception of the Congressional baseball practice shooting. That one sticks out like a sore thumb.