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How many of the mass shooters we've seen in the last 30-plus years, were on drugs that were supposed to calm them, make them happy, etc?
Apparently a lot of them were. And some of the manufacturers say that occasionally those drugs can produce "mania", a dangerous tendency to commit violence, harm others etc.
Could this have had some effect on Adam Lanza, Nikolas Cruz and others?
He [shooter Nikolas Cruz] and his brother were adopted when they were young by Lynda and Roger Cruz, of Long Island, New York, according to relatives. They raised the boys in Parkland.
Roger Cruz died over a decade ago and Lynda struggled with the boys, said Barbara Kumbatovich, a former sister-in-law. “She did the best she could. They were adopted and had some emotional issues,” she said.
Kumbatovich said she believed Nikolas Cruz was on medication to deal with his emotional fragility. “She was struggling with Nikolas the last couple years,” she said.
No, you can't blame this on antidepressants that have been around since the 50's.
SSRIs were not on the market until the late 1980s and not in widespread use until the 90s. Soon after, school and other mass shootings literally exploded in frequency.
SSRIs were not on the market until the late 1980s and not in widespread use until the 90s. Soon after, school and other mass shootings literally exploded in frequency.
Millions in this country take SSRI's and they don't go out and kill. So you really can't blame it on that.
Could it also be true that the type of weapons apparently so easily available to the likes of Adam Lanza and Cruz today were less readily available to people back in the 1950’s?
So, maybe it should be harder for people on Prozac and Valium to buy weapons.
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