by Caleb Owens at Psychreg
- History of antidepressant use in the US
- Understanding depression
- The rise of antidepressants
- SSRIs 101: What you should know
- How do SSRIs work?
- Too much of a good thing: Serotonin syndrome
- The connection between SSRIs and violence
- SSRIs can increase the risk of suicide
- SSRIs can increase the risk of violence against others
- Connection between SSRI and murder
- The push for stronger mental health legislation
- Gun control, mental health, and SSRIs: what’s the solution?
- Personal responsibility
- The FDA-big pharma connection
- Political influence of big pharma
- The FDA approval process
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a mass murder occurs when at least four people are murdered, not including the shooter, over a relatively short period of time during a single incident. Over the last 30 years, the US has seen a significant increase in mass shootings, which are becoming more frequent and more deadly.
Seemingly every time a mass shooting occurs, whether it’s at a synagogue in Pittsburgh or a nightclub in Orlando, the anti-gun media and politicians have a knee-jerk response – they blame the tragedy solely on the tool used, namely firearms, and focus all of their proposed ‘solutions’ on more laws, ignoring that the murderer already broke numerous laws when they committed their atrocity.
Facts matter when addressing such an emotionally charged topic, and more gun control legislation has shown that law-abiding Americans who own guns are not the problem. Consider the following: The more gun control laws that are passed, the more mass murders have occurred.
Whether or not this is correlation or causation is debatable. What is not debatable…
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