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originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
a reply to: MisterSpock
Great now I'm pushing an agenda...
Read my other posts for f# sakes.
originally posted by: Murgatroid
I'm right here in Oregon so this really hits home...
While reading a story on this on oregonlive's news page I saw this comment:
• Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event.
• Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac.
• Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.
• Mathew Miller, age 13, hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days.
• Jeff Weise, living on Minnesota’s Red Lake Indian Reservation, shot and killed nine people and wounded five others before killing himself. Weise had been taking Prozac.
• Joseph T. Wesbecker, just a month after he began taking Prozac in 1989, shot 20 workers at Standard Gravure Corp. in Louisville, Ky., killing nine. Prozac-maker Eli Lilly later settled a lawsuit brought by survivors.
• Kip Kinkel, 15, murdered his parents and then opened fire on his classmates at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, May, 1998, killing two and wounding 22 others. He had been prescribed both Prozac and Ritalin.
• In 1988, 31-year-old Laurie Dann went on a shooting rampage in a second-grade classroom in Winnetka, Illinois, killing one child and wounding six. She had been taking the antidepressant Anafranil as well as Lithium.
• In Paducah, Ky., in late 1997, 14-year-old Michael Carneal, traveled to Heath High School and started shooting students in a prayer meeting taking place in the school’s lobby, killing three and leaving another paralyzed. Carneal reportedly was on Ritalin.
www.oregonlive.com...
Taking some of the names above and doing a search turns up some even more interesting results:
Antidepressant Drugs and Antipsychotic Drugs and Murder
Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple instances of suicide, children killing their parents and Mom’s killing their children all share one thing in common.
There is overwhelming evidence suggesting that the common factor in all of these incidents is all of the perpetrators were either at the time of the crime or at some point in the immediate past…prior to the crime…taking anti-psychotic (psychotropic) drugs.
www.drdahlman.com...
Common Traits of Mass Shootings
Almost all the mass shooting in recent years share certain traits that are exactly the same. This would seem to be a good place to start to find a cause to the drastic increase in these events. Here is a detailed list of those common traits, complete with sources:
1) They occur in places where guns are not legally allowed
2) The shooters are on legal mind-altering medication (specifically re-uptake inhibitors, like Prozac, Paxil, etc.). They are also usually seeing a psychiatrist or had seen one. Note: for the specifics on each incident, see the list below.
3) Almost never a known motive. When there is, it doesn’t make sense.
4) There are always unusual circumstances that don’t make sense and many unanswered questions.
wakefromthedream.wordpress.com...
Is there a link between anti depressants & mass murders?
knowledgeglue.com...
originally posted by: crazyewok
Why does this keep happening in the USA?
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
a reply to: crazyewok
Something in the water...
No, joking is inconsiderate...
I said it in the last shooting thread...
People can blame mental illness, pills, upbringing and everything else...
The only common denominator is the gun...
As you know, we don't really have guns...
But I can get one illegally in 5 minutes, so can thousands of not millions of us...
So why don't we???
Maybe it's a mental health thing...
But the gun is definitely an elephant in the room...
Last mass shooting in England, Raol Moat, sure there was mental health problems in that...
Obtaining a gun wasn't the hard part for sure.
Too easy to blame the gun, but it's just as easy to ignore it...
It's like the old saying...
Believing in no conspiracies is stupid, believing everything is a conspiracy is equally stupid...
Saying it's not guns is stupid, saying it's always solely about the gun is equally as stupid.
Sorry for the diatribe fella.
originally posted by: Watcher777
So it sounds like this guy had enough time to get people to line up and ask them if they were Christian or not before shooting, so this was more execution style then just randomly walking the halls and shooting people.