> | I agree with most of what you wrote. The real problem is the powerful psychotropic drugs being given out and sold by pharmaceutical companies. Everybody here's about some guy "going off their meds". That's when they really go nuts. These drugs are making things so much worse. I never heard of mass shootings until psychiatric drugs showed up and were prescribed for well, anybody right down to kids. Oh, somebody got in a fight at school, give them Ritalin and Prozac. Some kid is feeling blue. More of the same. It's just insane. It's big money, a lot bigger money than the gun industry which also by the way supplies our officers and military. So I think the drug companies get off scott free. They have a lot more money to give to lobbyists than say Armalite.
But the stats don't bear it out. Even if you could prove that most, or all, of the mass murders were caused by prescription drugs, those mass murders are, once again, a tiny percentage of gun victims in this country. Additionally, the number of prescriptions in the U.S. rises every year, but our murder rate has dropped by nearly two-thirds since 1980. If there's any correlation, it's a negative one (which, in theory, could make sense, but I'm doubtful).
And drug use in general doesn't appear to correlate all that much with murder rates either (if at all).
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