What is interesting about Paddock is that the general claim (never backed up by the FBI or Vegas cops) is that it was only four months prior to Vegas shooting...that he was put on psychotropic medications. So it took barely over a hundred days for them to affect the guy.
When you go and examine a lot of the guys who have PTSD...psychotropic medications are often prescribed to them.
As a kid, I had this neighbor family that lived across from the farm. Brother and sister there....I knew both of them. As the years passed, they each married. Somewhere in the 2011 period, the brother and his wife got into a messy divorce situation. The sister was a personal friend of the wife, and drove down to be at a divorce hearing (bringing her son along). The sister arrived on the Friday before the hearing. Over that weekend...the brother came to the house...murdered the wife, his daughter, his sister, and the sister’s son (mass murder). Then he killed himself. The previous six year, he had a lot of stress and I suspect he was on a psychotropic medication theme as well. Doesn’t matter now...he’s dead.
I suspect if you could terminate or end psychotropic drug production....that you’d notice a 50-percent drop-off in these mass murders within the first year alone.
I'll tell you what, around 1982 the gal I was dating gave me an anti-anxiety pill she had. I don't recall why, I must have been real upset about something, she suggested it and I thought it was a good idea.
Within an hour I was feeling nothing but rage and very specifically feeling like I wanted to kill somebody. For no reason at all. Totally not me. I was never a fighter not even when drunk as a skunk. The feeling and the thoughts were irresistible.
At the time I had pretty much lost interest in smoking pot but had friends that always had some. Went over to their place, asked them to get me stoned and went home and went to bed still feeling murderous but at least the feeling was resistible and I could fall sleep.
Of all the things I've ever taken nothing has ever put thoughts in my head like that Rx psychotropic pill nor has anything else made me feel agitated and angry. It scared the crap out me that it could do that. I was struggling to reason it out but it was overriding all my efforts.
To be clear, it wasn't anger that I took the #@$# pill for in the first place. The anger came out of nowhere when the pill kicked in. Actually it was more rage and hatred than what I normally experience as anger.