[[Antidepressants are the direct cause of all of the mass killings.]]
Can’t tell if yopu’re being funny or not- if not- please explain yourself- if you are then:
I w2asn’t aware that anti-depressents were capable of firign a gun-
Ted Bundy, Jeffery Dahmer, the BTK killer?? John Wayne Gacey- none of them were on medications- the boston strangelr wasn’t- jack the ripper wasn’t- The virginia tech murderer had STOPPED takign his meds and went o nthe killiong spree- and it’s been shown that lots of murderers committed theirm urders AFTER stopping their medications voluntarily
Drugs don’t ‘cause’ murders- sick people use instruments which ‘cause’ murders
Antidepressants cause permanent changes in brain function. This has been pointed out by many researchers. Those changes cause the person to become prone to unpredictible violent episodes, and the effect does not ‘wear off’ with time.
From Dr. Whitaker’s Feb 2013 newsletter:
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“On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza
fatally shot his mother in her home in Newtown,
Connecticut. Armed with an assault rifle and two
handguns, he then burst into the nearby Sandy
Hook Elementary School and killed 20 children, six
adults, and himself.
“Tragic, heartbreaking, shocking, horrendous,
unthinkable, inexplicable: All are apt descriptions of
this act of murderous mayhem—except for inexplicable.
“Although the details on this specific incident
are yet to be confirmed, I can say with near certainty
that Adam Lanza was taking psychiatric medication.
First, it was reported that he underwent psychiatric
evaluation and had been medicated as early as
age 10.
“Second, this is by no means the first time
these drugs have been associated with murder and
suicide. Between 2004 and 2011, the FDA’s Adverse
Events Reporting System for drug side effects logged
12,755 reports of psychiatric medications relating to
violence. Among them were 359 homicides, 7,250 incidences of aggression, and 2,795 episodes of mania.
There were also 9,310 suicides.
“Actually, the damage
is far greater. According to the FDA, fewer than 10
percent of adverse reactions are reported. To get a
truer picture of the horrors of these medications,
multiply these numbers by 10!
“This isn’t even the first school shooting linked
with psychiatric drugs. The 14 school shootings
and the 10 murders and murder-suicides listed on
page 3—which left a total of 102 dead and 131
wounded—were all committed by individuals who
have been positively identified as having been
taking or withdrawing from antidepressants or other
psychiatric drugs.
“A Litany of Murder and Mayhem:
• Pittsburgh, PA, March 8, 2012: John Shick,
age 30, shot and killed one employee at the
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s
Western Psychiatric Institute and injured six
other people before he was killed by the police.
Forty-three prescription medications, including nine
antidepressants, were found in his apartment.
• Seal Beach, CA, October 12, 2011: Scott
Dekraai, 41, killed eight people, including his
ex-wife, and wounded one at the hair salon where
she worked. He had been prescribed Trazodone, an
antidepressant, and Topamax, a mood stabilizer.
• Huntsville, AL, February 5, 2010: Hammad
Memon, 14, shot and killed a fellow student
at their middle school. He had been treated for
depression and ADHD and was taking the antidepressant
Zoloft and other drugs.
• Lakeland, FL, May 3, 2009: Troy Bellar, 34,
killed his wife and their 5-month- and 8-yearold
sons, and then shot himself. He was taking
Tegretol for bipolar disorder.
• Granberry Crossroads, AL, April 26, 2009:
Fred B. Davis, 53, killed a policeman and
wounded a deputy sheriff after threatening a
neighbor with a gun. He had been prescribed
Geodon, an antipsychotic drug.
• Middletown, MD, April 17, 2009: Christopher
Wood, 34, cut and shot his wife and three children,
ages 5, 4, and 2, and then committed suicide. He
had been on the antidepressants Cymbalta and Paxil
and the anti-anxiety medications BuSpar and Xanax.
• Concord, CA, January 11, 2009: Jason Montes,
33, killed his 25-year-old wife and shot himself to
death in their home. He had started taking Prozac.
• Kauhajoki, Finland, September 23, 2008:
Matti Saari, 22, shot and killed 9 other
students, wounded another, and killed a teacher
before killing himself. He was taking an antidepressant
and a benzodiazepine.
• Little Rock, AR, August 13, 2008: Timothy
Johnson, 50, shot and killed Arkansas
Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney at
the party’s headquarters; he was then pursued
and killed by police. A police report confirmed
that he was taking an antidepressant and ‘…the
drug may have played a part in his irrational and
violent behavior.’
• Dekalb, IL, February 14, 2008: Steven
Kazmierczak, 27, shot and killed five people and
wounded 21, then killed himself in an auditorium
at Northern Illinois University, where he
had been a student. He had recently been taking
Prozac, Xanax, and Ambien, a sleeping aid.
• Omaha, NE, December 5, 2007: Robert
Hawkins, 19, killed eight people and wounded
five before committing suicide in an Omaha
mall. Autopsy results confirmed he was under the
influence of the anti-anxiety drug Valium.
• Jokela, Finland, November 7, 2007: Pekka-Eric
Auvinen, 18, killed five boys, one girl, the principal,
and the school nurse and wounded a dozen
others at his high school before killing himself.
He had been taking antidepressants.
• Cleveland, OH, October 10, 2007: Asa Coon,
14, shot two students and two teachers at his
high school and then committed suicide. He had
been prescribed Trazodone.
• Red Lake, MN, March 21, 2005: Jeff Weise,
16, killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s
girlfriend, and drove to the high school on the
Red Lake Indian Reservation where he opened
fire, killing seven people and wounding five. He
then shot himself to death. He was on Prozac.
• East Greenbush, NY, February 9, 2004: Jon
Romano, 16, took a shotgun to school and
wounded a teacher. He had been on medication
for depression.
• North Meridian, FL, July 8, 2003: Doug
Williams, 48, shot 14 of his co-workers at
Lockheed Martin with a shotgun, killing six of
them, before turning the gun on himself. He
was reported to have been on two antidepressants,
Zoloft and Celexa.
• Wahluke, WA, April 10, 2001: Cory
Baadsgaard, 16, held 23 classmates and a teacher
hostage using a rifle he had taken to school. He
had been taking the antidepressant Effexor.”
There are several pages more of these in the letter