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OP
Poll choices listed are not acceptable for me to make a reasonable voting selection.
I agree.
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OP
Poll choices listed are not acceptable for me to make a reasonable voting selection.
End psychotropic drug use.
That's my answer.
OK, what would be one for you? I am just trying to get a dialogue going about it. To me, it seems like this is the area we need to start looking at if we want to really do something to prevent or reduce the frequency of these attacks.
Trust me, I don't take it lightly. As I mentioned I am on psychotropic drugs myself. If it was proven that the use of these drugs is a root cause, I would gladly submit myself to whatever monitoring necassary for the greater good. I want these things to stop.
After some thought I recall a friend of mine who was told by an Army Recruiter that he would have to be off of his med's for a period of not less then one year without incident before they would consider him for service in the Army. Even with that he would have to have a doctors note as proof.
OP, this is your thread, do what wish. If I were to suggest an additional choice for your poll it would be along those lines listed above. If the military can implement that kind of requirement then maybe the same consideration should be considered for gun ownership.
I myself am not against anti depressant drugs. I believe they have their uses but they definitely have their draw backs as your links tend to point out.
I would add it, but it doesn't look like I can. If someone knows how let me know and I'll do it. So to be clear, you feel that if one is taking psychotropic drugs they should not be allowed to own a firearm?
Tried the link to the article and got a warning from my security software that the site was an "attack page," i.e., had the potential to load malware on my computer. Anybody else had that warning?
The link in the original post generated a warning about malware.
Here's why SSRIs and other antidepressants are linked to suicide and violence. People who are clinically depressed generally lack the energy or will to do anything. Go to work. Get out of bed. Etc. The first thing an antidepressant does is "activate" the person taking it. So if they were thinking about hurting themselves or others, now they have the energy to do it. If they're adolescents, who already lack the ability to understand outcomes of their decisions, they or whoever it is who bullied them or tormented them is headed for a bad end. This is a correlation, not a causative factor. That's why people on antidepressants should be monitored closely when starting them and parents of teenagers are warned to watch them. All you've done is list a bunch of cases that seem to prove what you want to prove out of literally tens or hundreds of thousands where nothing like that happens. And I'm on an SSRI myself, by the way, and have been on a variety of meds, many of which listed on your article, having suffered from depression at times over my life and definitely from A DVD, the primarily inattentive type without the hyperactivity. So far I'm 59, made E-9 and served 21 years of active duty in the Air Force, had a second successful career in mental health, and haven't killed myself or anyone else yet. And know way more people than your article cite who fit the same profile and have benefited greatly from psychotropic medications.
I would add it, but it doesn't look like I can. If someone knows how let me know and I'll do it. So to be clear, you feel that if one is taking psychotropic drugs they should not be allowed to own a firearm?