May 16, 2013
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Update! Mass Murders + Psychotropic Drugs
Confirmed: ‘Batman’ Shooter James Holmes Was On Psychotropic Drugs
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Here’s a spot quiz: Aside from personal or familial Democrat party affiliations, what’s the single thing that ties together all of the young mass murderers who have wreaked havoc at least since Columbine? If you answered “psychotropic drugs,” you get to go to the head of the class. With the exception of jihadist killers, who were drugged out on their own faith, all of the big-name American killers in the last few decades – everyone from the Columbine killers to Adam Lanza – were young men on SSRIs, Ritalin or Adderall.
The only one as to whom the verdict was still out was James Holmes, aka the “Batman” shooter. Most people believed that he was on prescription behavior drugs, but that was hearsay, not proof. Any doubts on that score, though, are now over. Alex Jones’ InfoWars.com reports that court records show that Holmes, like others before and after him, had been on SSRIs when he went on his shooting rampage:
Newly released court documents confirm that ‘Batman’ shooter James Holmes was taking the anti-depressant drug Zoloft before he conducted his massacre in an Aurora theater last July, underscoring yet again the prevalent yet underreported connection between psychotropic drugs and mass shootings.
The L.A. Times goes into some detail to describe the drugs Holmes was taking. According to the Times, the police reported finding “prescription medication for sertraline, a generic version of Zoloft used to treat depression, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder; and Clonazepam, usually prescribed to treat anxiety and panic attacks.” In case you were wondering, Eric Harris, the Columbine killer, was also taking Zoloft.
In Psychology Today blog post written immediately after the Sandy Hook killings, when the gun grabbers started their anti-Constitutional rampage, the author warned that it’s a grave mistake to leap to gun control and just ignore prescription drugs’ role in these mass murders:
The reason for the note of caution [about rushing into gun control after Sandy Hook] is that when a typical young person is diagnosed with depression and/or a host of anti-social conditions, the standard treatment offered is SSRI’s [Selective Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors] also known as Prozac-like drugs. There has recently been a great deal of debate about the effectiveness of such medications.
But more relevant to the discussion, is that these very drugs we hope can treat mental illness are at the same time drugs that cause violent behavior including suicide and aggression toward others. In fact, SSRI’s are the leading drugs in a recent list compiled of the Top Ten Drugs that cause violent behavior.
It’s been well known that adolescents and young people have an increased risk of suicide when they begin to take SSRIs. But what we may forget is that suicide is an impulsive behavior that is turned against oneself. But impulses, particularly violent ones, can be turned against others.
Our schools medicate our children – especially our boys – in order to make them conform to a feminized standard of education, one that involves minimal schoolyard competition and rough housing, hours of sitting, and even more hours reading books that target girls’ emotions. Boys should be given an outlet for their energy and, in addition to the basics of math and science, they should be able to read literature and history that inspires them to be courageous, loyal, honest, and responsible. Boys and young men are bored. Instead of engaging them, our public bully parents into medicating them — and these medications are proven to have paradoxical effects for young people, resulting in toxic behaviors that don’t necessarily occur in adults on the same medicines.
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