Not Guns, DRUGS - Specifically, SSRIs
2018-02-15 08:46 by Karl Denninger
The usual sycophants are screaming for more gun control immediately, of course.
They are intentionally and maliciously ignoring this:
“I know she had been having some issues with them, especially the older one. He was being a problem. I know he did have some issues and he may have been taking medication.
"Rage Monster" medication?
You know, the same general class of medication that the Columbine shooters -- along with a huge, in fact ridiculously-high percentage of all school shooters between Columbine and today -- were on?
They're called SSRIs and they're dangerous when taken by people under 25.
Why isn't the first line of inquiry finding out if this guy was on a class of drugs -- prescribed -- that are known to cause this behavior in a small percentage of people under the age of 25? If he was why aren't we holding the physician who prescribed them accountable as having prescribed a drug known to cause violence to someone in the known risk class -- and charging him or her as an accessory to murder before the fact?
I have long held and written in these pages that these drugs should only be prescribed to those under the age of 25 for those in residential facilities where they can be monitored 24x7. For reasons we do not understand these drugs stop having that side effect in full-fledged adults (although they still are implicated in potentiating suicides), but in teens and young adults they are dangerous in a small but non-zero percentage of those who use them in that they turn the user into a homicidal maniac.
They're handed out like candy for emotional disturbances and there is a very high correlation between people who do these things and their prescribed use. These drugs may well be useful in an appropriate subset of the population but it simply must not include those under the age of 25 who are not institutionalized.
Psychotropic medication, specifically in this case SSRIs, are dangerous in those under the age of 25 in that there is a known small but real risk of them potentiating a "Rage Monster" when given to people in this age group. This risk is on the label and prescribing information but we still hand this crap out to kids and near-kids and there appears to be no good way to know who will have that sort of reaction to consuming them.
This must be stopped right damn now. How many rage monsters do we have to create before we ban the prescribing of these drugs to that age group and start charging physicians and other 'professionals' who write said scripts with being accessories before the fact to acts of violence perpetrated by their patients if they prescribe them anyway?
While it is not yet confirmed that Cruz was on one of these drugs it's a decent bet he was and you can also bet the media will not dig into it and the FBI and other authorities will try to keep that information from coming out, if it is in fact the case.
This we must not tolerate.
Second, since we're on the subject of the medical "scam" system in this nation and its likely complicity in this event may I note that in the time between the shooting and this morning more Americans died from the medical monopolists in preventable "errors" and in fact more die this way every single day. Worse, they die after being asset-stripped, in many cases to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, yet not one person is ever charged in such deaths.
Why not? Those who prescribe SSRIs to teens are not Marcus Welby, they're Josef Mengele -- as are those in the medical system who do things like performing an optional surgery on someone with congestive heart failure, pancreatitis and cirrhosis instead of first draining the tens of pounds of fluid from that person's abdomen, stabilizing those other conditions and demanding the person stop drinking and thus grossly reduce the risk of complications -- complications that in the instant case I'm familiar with did happen, nearly killed said person and ran up a six-figure hospital bill they sent to the taxpayers because they "decided" to do the original operation despite actual knowledge of these co-morbidities and the grossly-increased risk they presented.
When it comes to guns there are 50,000 gun laws on the books. The Second Amendment says every one of them is unconstitutional but we don't care; we pass them anyway. They will never stop someone from committing an act like this for the simple reason that someone willing to commit murder does not care how many other laws they violate first. Adam Lanza killed his mother to get her gun; he clearly did not give a crap about gun laws and neither have any of the others who have done similar things.
Finally, let me note this: Every single cop who showed up did not do so with a baseball bat; they all came with guns. If we are not going to stop prescribing these drugs to teens and young adults then the only other alternative is for damn near every adult in every school and other "soft target" like this must be armed and prepared to offer meaningful resistance if such a jackass shows up.
You do not stop a madman with a gun with harsh language just like you don't stop a charging grizzly bear by talking with it.
You shoot him.
Originally Posted by Ridge
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