Media ignoring 1 crucial factor in FL school shooting (psychotropic drugs)

WND ^ | 2/15/18 | David Kupelian

[Avalon Memories]

Here we go again. A horrific mass shooting occurs. Everyone is in shock and grief. Democrats blame guns and Republicans. Pundits urge the public, “If you see something, say something.” And everyone asks, “Why?”

As information about the perpetrator emerges, a relative confides to a newspaper that the “troubled youth” who committed the mass murder was on psychiatric medications – you know, those powerful, little understood, mind-altering drugs with fearsome side effects including “suicidal ideation” and even “homicidal ideation.”

Yet the predictable response from the press is always the same – not only a total lack of curiosity, but disdain for any who ask the question, as though connecting psychiatric meds to mass shootings is pursuing a “conspiracy theory.”

Here’s a good way to tell whether or not something is a conspiracy theory: If it’s true, it’s not a conspiracy theory.

In the case of Nikolas Cruz, his [aunt]…told the Miami Herald that she believed Cruz was on medication to deal with his emotional fragility.

[SNIP]

Fact: A disturbing number of perpetrators of school shootings and similar mass murders in our modern era were either on – or just recently coming off of – psychiatric medications.

[glock rocks]

Amen.

[minnesota_bound]

Robin Williams killed himself and he was taking lots of drugs doctors said would be good for him.

[logi_cal869]

Considering that the method for prescription is “here, try this and let’s see what happens” it’s no wonder.

I have my own views on the causes of depression and anxiety, and agree with you in part...

...but defining “badly” should be more broad than “sometimes.”

I believe most people on these drugs are in fact harmed rather than helped, similar to the opioid problem and not assigning a cause to pain.

“Sometimes” they do very bad things to others...