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2022-07-10 -Lurid Crime Tales-

37 Mass Shooters Who Were On Antidepressants

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-10 11:54|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Again, people with emotional and mental issues taking drugs that help with mental and emotional issues is as shocking as finding that a cancer patient is taking chemotherapy drugs.

This crap is pushed by Scientology, and I'm disgusted every time I see a "conservative" picking it up.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-10 12:40|| 2022-07-10 12:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Even if every single mass shooter were on anti depressants, it wouldn't prove that antidepressants cause the mass shooting. What should matter is the percentage of people taking antidepressants who commit mass shootings.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2022-07-10 14:08|| 2022-07-10 14:08|| Front Page Top

#3 All it proves is a lot of fucked up people do a lot of fucked up things. And they were on antidepressants. So are a lot of fucked up people on them, but they don't kill people.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-07-10 17:50|| 2022-07-10 17:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Honestly, the quest to blame antidepressants for mass shootings is no different than the quest to blame guns. Both movements place the blame on inanimate objects, and so both ignore the reality that people -- damaged, sick people, but still people -- chose to commit these atrocities.

But both routes let people ignore that, and to convince themselves there's a simple solution that's being blocked by bad people with evil motivations. I guess it's easier than being an adult.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-10 19:39|| 2022-07-10 19:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Well Rob, you are certainly right about one thing. There appears to be no "simple solutions."

Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-10 20:10|| 2022-07-10 20:10|| Front Page Top

#6 I see no reason this shouldn't be investigated, but only in regards that all aspects of the path that lead to it should. Evidence is evidence, some leads nowhere, some leads to reasons. Nothing should be written off without actual reason, no matter what it is. Now, once there is reason, all well and good.

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-07-10 21:19|| 2022-07-10 21:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Some I know eat them like breath mints.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-10 21:40|| 2022-07-10 21:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Correlation is not causation, and as the article points out, a number of factors have been proposed as driving spree killings. More research is definitely a good idea before making claims.

In the meantime, though, training and arming staff at soft targets is a good idea, and changing the tone of the reportage to discourage copycats would be helpful. I was pleased to read, in one of the articles about the most recent one, that when the then-future killer stopped in at a synagogue during services, he was closely examined by congregants, some of whom regularly carried concealed weapons by arrangement. The spokesman thought afterward that the killer was casing the place and decided to take his massacre elsewhere.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-10 21:41|| 2022-07-10 21:41|| Front Page Top

#9 It's called serotonin psychosis. And no one wants to talk about it.

In fact just try to look it up.

Posted by Woodrow 2022-07-10 22:34|| 2022-07-10 22:34|| Front Page Top

#10 I found lots of articles when I searched that term, Woodrow. History, connection to hallucinations and schizophrenia..l It’s a standard watch-out when trying to find the right dose of seratonin-reuptake inhibitor antidepressants — we spent an unhappy night when that was the concern for trailing daughter #1 during her teen years, but she came out all right from it.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-10 23:40|| 2022-07-10 23:40|| Front Page Top

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