Prozac is the only thing here not mentioned as a probable reason for the mood of the killer. I think prozac should be better regulated to protect citizens from walking nutjobs.
I believe the Prozac issue here was that he had stopped taking it a few days before the shooting. Arguably this wouldn’t have happened had he stayed on his meds?
I think people who are prescribed psychoactive drug after criminal prosecution (and some of these cases have been such people) are CRININALLY INSANE. They should not be permitted to roam freely about. Get a family member to be their appoitned guardian if they are to remain “free” and keep them confined under house “arrest” (leg bracelet monitored).
They are not functional in society.
The pills don’t always do the trick, especially when they stop taking them for awhile.
This happened when he STOPPED taking his Prozac, because his idiot girlfriend persuaded him to. He had spent time in a psych hospital in the past and probably should have been kept there, but Prozac isn’t the problem other than the fact that excessive faith is placed in it as an alternative to lock-up.
Squidly has it right in that there is no plausible reason nor logical causation for such acts. It is human nature to grasp for explanation of these human tragedies.
The usual suspects are always firearms, SSRI's (Prozac, Zoloft) or video games or violence on TV. All this is predictable every time some bastard walks in and starts killing innocent people. They do "walk" in so let's blame it on legs. It makes as much sense as blaming firearms or SSRI's. Who is going to walk in and start shooting innocent people. Well, people with legs, with a firearm who are far from mentally well.
Guns, legs or SSRI's do not drive this insanity they merely follow it. I think in this particular case he had stopped taking his meds. I think it is more that those who would be taking an anti-depressant, would be more likely to be in a mental state to commit such an act and far less likely that the AD is causing them to commit that act.
Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Oswald, Ghengis Khan and a great many others never knew what an SSRI was, nor did those know who were murdered in places like schools, colleges, restaurants, churches and malls. There just simply aren't any concrete answers and the only thing close to a solution is to have citizens armed so they can meet these madmen on equal terms and preserve innocent life.
Or when prescribed the doc to notify atf so, when he applies for a firearm, the flags go up.