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Psychiatric Drugs, Not A Lack OfGun Control, Are The CommonDenominator In MurderousViolence

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In 2000, New York legislators recognized the

ubiquitous and unambiguous connection

between violence, especially gun violence

and mass murder, and the widespread

prescribed use of psychiatric drugs. Senate

Bill 7035 was introduced in the New York

State Senate that year requiring police

agencies to report to the Department of

Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) on certain

crimes and suicides committed by a person

who is using psychiatric drugs, including assault, homicide, sex offenses, robbery

offenses, firearms and other dangerous weapons offenses, kidnapping and arson.The preamble to the bill read, in part:

The bill died in committee. Since that time, there have

been at least 12 additional high-profile mass murderslinked to the use of psychiatric drugs, about one a year.

And, in virtually every mass school shooting during

the past 15 years, the shooter has been on or in

withdrawal from psychiatric drugs. Here is a partial list

of 24 such horrific events that occurred since 1998, not

including the Virginia Tech shootings and the recent

Sandy Hook shootings where the authorities continue

to suppress information about whether and to what

extent the shooters were on or in withdrawal from a

There is a large body of scientific research establishing a connection between violence and

suicide and the use of psychotropic drugs in some cases. This research, which has been

published in peer reviewed publications such as the American Journal of Psychia try, The

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and The Journal of

Forensic Science , has shown, among other things, that: certain drugs can induce mania (a

psychosis which can produce bizarre, grandiose and highly elaborated destructive plans,

including mass murder);. . .and certain drugs can produce an acute psychotic reaction in an

individual not previously psychotic.

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These examples are not unique. According to the

Citizens Commission On Human Rights International

(CCHR), between 2004 and 2011, there were 12,755

reports to the U.S. FDAs MedWatch system of

psychiatric drugs causing violent side effects

including: 1,231 cases of homicidal ideation/homicide,

2,795 cases of mania and 7,250 cases of aggression.

Since the FDA admits that only one to ten percent of

all side effects are ever reported to it, the actualoccurrence of violent side effects from psychiatric

drugs is certainly nine or ten times higher than the

official data suggest.

Yet, federal and state governments continue to ignore

the connection between psychiatric drugs and

murderous violence, preferring instead to exploit these

tragedies in an oppressive and unconstitutional power

grab to snatch guns away from innocent, law-abiding

people who are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution the

right to own and bear arms to deter government

tyranny and to use firearms in self defense against anymiscreant who would do them harm. Therefore, it is

pharmaceutical makers, not law-abiding gun owners or

gun manufacturers, who should be held to account for

the series of lone-wolf, mass shootings that have

occurred since the widespread use of psychiatric drugs

began.

Although it is doubtful any single variable can explain

what causes someone to commit such unspeakable acts

as we saw recently at Sandy Hook, one common

denominator surfaces time and time again, in hundreds

and hundreds of cases where a lone wolf commits

violence, murder and mayhem for apparently no

reason: Prescribed psychiatric drugs, which are well

documented to induce mania, psychosis, violence,

suicide and murder, including mass murder for no

apparent reason by otherwise non-psychotic people.

Given the mass of supporting data linking psychiatric

drug use/withdrawal and violence, and given the fact it

has been ignored studiously by the U.S. Congress and

federal agencies, it is well past time that Congress and

state legislatures and government agencies at all levels

formally investigate the well established link between prescribed use of

psychiatric drugs, school shootings and similar acts of senseless violence.

This video reveals the indisputable connection between psychiatric drugs and

violence, especially young lone-wolf shooters in gun massacres.

As psychiatrist Peter Breggin observes in the video:

One of the things in the past that weve known about depression is that it very, very rarely leads

to violence. Its only been since the advent of these new SSRI drugs that weve had murderers

even mass murders taking these antidepressant drugs.

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Amendment rights through its seat at the table in Washington, the government

should be demanding answers and explanations from PhRMA and the

pharmaceutical companies.

Instead of extorting NRA chairman Dave Keene and NRA president Wayne

LaPierre into participating with the gun snatchers efforts to nullify the Second

Amendment in the name of reducing gun violence, why arent the White House

and Congress putting former Business Roundtable President and current head of

PhRMA, John Castellani, along with the presidents of the pharmaceutical

companies on the hot seat?

Why isnt Castellani sitting in on White House and congressional meetings about

the connection between his products and mass shootings instead of Keene and

LaPierre of the NRA?

Why isnt there a White House Task Force on the connection between psychiatric

drugs and violence, suicide and murder, both gun related and otherwise?

Why arent there congressional hearings on the connection between violence and

psychiatric drugs?

Why arent there bills being introduced in Congress and state legislatures to

tighten down on the indiscriminate, unmonitored use of these killer drugs?

Why is the government still suppressing information about the shooters

psychiatric drug use at Sandy Hook and Virginia Tech?

Why is the government turning America into a police state in the name of

protecting us against nonexistent reefer madness while it turns a blind eye to the

real, deadly med madness created by psychiatric drugs and the uncontrollable

violent rages they produce in some people?

Could it be there is a quiet conspiracy afoot among pharmaceutical companies, the

government and the gun grabbers to make Mr. and Mrs. Gun Owner of America

the patsies for the violence and to blame lone-wolf violence on guns rather than

psychiatric drugs?

Could it be that power-hungry politicians and gun snatchers are out to exploit rare

tragedies such as Sandy Hook and use the blood of innocent children to scare

America into giving up its constitutional rights to own and bear arms and use them

as a deterrent against tyranny?

Could it be that big pharma is todays big tobacco?

Could it be there is an intentional effort underway in the centers of power in

Washington, DC to hide the truth from the American people about the strong

connection between psychiatric drugs and violence and to protect the

pharmaceutical companies from civil and criminal charges for their responsibility

in these heinous crimes?

Could that be the explanation for why there continue to be lawsuits against gun

manufacturers not for defects in their products but rather for the misuse of their

products by drug-addled individuals and why there are few lawsuits against

pharmaceutical companies for the obvious flaws in their products, which are

producing violence and mayhem?

Could it be the Gun Control movement is simply a blind; just an effort by the

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public safety, officer safety and social order?

The gun snatchers such as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, New York Governor Andrew

Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg all shamefully exploit the

bloody murder of children as a pretext to nullify the Second Amendment and short

arm the American public with their so-called assault-weapons ban and

ammunition/clip restrictions. The fact is, the kinds of guns used by mass shooters

are far less relevant than the kinds of drugs they were prescribed.

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