For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of
love, and of a sound mind. 2 Tim.1:
In 1973 I sold all my guns and
have seen no reason to own a gun since. However, I am of the opinion that if
there were more armed individuals many of these incidents would not occur with the same drastic results. What I have observed about the recent mass shootings is that psychiatric
medications were involved and played a greater role than the guns used to kill
so many.
We are shocked that, a young man
would pick up a rifle and two hand guns and murder twenty children and six
adults, then take his own life. Our
politicians, president, and anti-gun activists would have us believe that the
"guns" are to blame for this tragedy but this is not the first such
violent act by young men. There is a
more sinister cause behind these mass murders and violent acts that continues
to be ignored-psychotic drug treatment.
A young man opened fire on holiday
shoppers in Clackamas Town Center in Oregon, killing two people and
himself. Twelve people were killed in a
movie theater in Colorado in July. Three
high school students were killed in Ohio in February. These happening are far from rare any more
but they have a common denominator and it is not guns.
First off, why should I care about
what type of weapon is being used? What
I should be concerned with is what driving behavior behind these murders is controlling
the shooter? The common denominator in these shootings has been prescribed
psychiatric mind altering drugs for behavior disorders.
The outcry from the public should
not be against the type of guns or if they were purchased illegally or legally,
but against the doctor who prescribes these mind altering drugs and pharmaceutical
that profits from the disorders of these unfortunate young men. Behavior problems cannot be changed with a
pill.
I know it is easy to blame the shooter
and disregard the emotional behavior disorder that was being treated by drugs
that altered their minds but it is time we address the real root problem of
these shootings. How did we get to the
place in America where 20% of the population is now on these mind altering
drugs?
My question is if there is a
debate about gun control shouldn't there be a debate about the dangers of
psychiatric drugs. After all, the violent behavior is a side-effect of many of
these drugs. If we are to support the ban of guns shouldn't we also ban
mind-altering drugs with violent and suicide side-effect?
It is not the gun causing these
mass murders; it is the individual that commits the murders. It would be far
better to outlaw the use of psychiatric drugs which has a major impact on the
behavior of the individual. I find it interesting
that antidepressant drug have never been tested on children nor approved by the
FDA for use on children. It is also
known that such drugs cause young men to think violent thoughts and commit
violent acts. But here in the United
States we are putting our kids on mind-altering drugs because we do not want to
deal with the behavior problems. Even
knowing that a 1200% increase in suicide risk is possible! Give them a pill and ignore the root problem.
Young men on these mind-altering
drugs are at twice the risk of violent behavior as those who are not on
them. If we are going to keep putting
are kids on mind-altering drugs we should be prepared for more of these
mass-killings. I find it odd that in
other countries where it is against the law to use these drugs on children that
we are not seeing the mass-killings like we see in America. When you change the brain for violent
behavior what do you think the results will be?
Just like the young man in the recent shooting. When you have a young man filled with
psychotropic drugs that promote violence this is the results.
My concern is this we have
thousands of these young men in our public schools right now. Sooner or later it will happen again and the
anti-gun crowd will be blaming the gun. Many
of these drugs are no more than an experiment for the pharmaceutical
companies. If we were to see the same
outcry against the drug companies as we do against the gun dealers and
manufacturer there would be less of these killings taking place.
Just as a side thought, how many automobile "accidents" have been caused by individuals using mind-altering drugs? Shouldn't we have laws for anyone on a prescribed mind-altering drug preventing them from having a driver's license? Should we prohibit anyone using psychiatric mind-altering drugs from holding jobs as teachers, doctors, law enforcement, and yes all politicians?
We are at greater risk from individuals on prescribed drugs than from a gun, knife, sword or any weapon and yet the politicians who are wanting to take away the "right to bear arms" are not requiring the root cause for these mass murders to be banned—psychiatric mind-altering drugs. Just my thoughts.