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Showing posts with label Gun Laws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gun Laws. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Every mass shooting over last 20 years has one thing in common...prescription drugs


On to the list of mass shooters and the stark link to psychotropic drugs.

• Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold's medical records have never been made available to the public.

• Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather's girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.

• Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event.

• Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac.

• Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.

• Mathew Miller, age 13, hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days.

• Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.

• Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.

• A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand off at his school.

• Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded..

• A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another.

• Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.

• TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.

• Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat.

• James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.

• Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania

• Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) – school shooting in El Cajon, California

• Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times.

• Chris Shanahan, age 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman.

• Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic's file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister.

• Neal Furrow (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.

• Kevin Rider, age 14, was withdrawing from Prozac when he died from a gunshot wound to his head. Initially it was ruled a suicide, but two years later, the investigation into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also age 14, had been taking Zoloft and other SSRI antidepressants.

• Alex Kim, age 13, hung himself shortly after his Lexapro prescription had been doubled.

• Diane Routhier was prescribed Welbutrin for gallstone problems. Six days later, after suffering many adverse effects of the drug, she shot herself.

• Billy Willkomm, an accomplished wrestler and a University of Florida student, was prescribed Prozac at the age of 17. His family found him dead of suicide – hanging from a tall ladder at the family's Gulf Shore Boulevard home in July 2002.

• Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter, age 12, was on Paxil when she hung herself from a hook in her closet. Kara's parents said ".... the damn doctor wouldn't take her off it and I asked him to when we went in on the second visit. I told him I thought she was having some sort of reaction to Paxil...")

• Gareth Christian, Vancouver, age 18, was on Paxil when he committed suicide in 2002, (Gareth's father could not accept his son's death and killed himself.)

• Julie Woodward, age 17, was on Zoloft when she hung herself in her family's detached garage.

• Matthew Miller was 13 when he saw a psychiatrist because he was having difficulty at school. The psychiatrist gave him samples of Zoloft. Seven days later his mother found him dead, hanging by a belt from a laundry hook in his closet.

• Kurt Danysh, age 18, and on Prozac, killed his father with a shotgun. He is now behind prison bars, and writes letters, trying to warn the world that SSRI drugs can kill.

• Woody __, age 37, committed suicide while in his 5th week of taking Zoloft. Shortly before his death his physician suggested doubling the dose of the drug. He had seen his physician only for insomnia. He had never been depressed, nor did he have any history of any mental illness symptoms.

• A boy from Houston, age 10, shot and killed his father after his Prozac dosage was increased.

• Hammad Memon, age 15, shot and killed a fellow middle school student. He had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression and was taking Zoloft and "other drugs for the conditions."

• Matti Saari, a 22-year-old culinary student, shot and killed 9 students and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine.

• Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amounts of Xanax in his system.

• Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, age 18, had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School – then he committed suicide.

• Asa Coon from Cleveland, age 14, shot and wounded four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon was on Trazodone.

• Jon Romano, age 16, on medication for depression, fired a shotgun at a teacher in his New York high school.

Missing from list... 3 of 4 known to have taken these same meds....

• What drugs was Jared Lee Loughner on, age 21...... killed 6 people and injuring 14 others in Tuscon, Az?

• What drugs was James Eagan Holmes on, age 24..... killed 12 people and injuring 59 others in Aurora Colorado?

• What drugs was Jacob Tyler Roberts on, age 22, killed 2 injured 1, Clackamas Or?

• What drugs was Adam Peter Lanza on, age 20, Killed 26 and wounded 2 in Newtown Ct?

Source:   www.ssristories.com 

Natural News

Monday, February 25, 2013

MSNBC: Marijuana, Crack Drug Dealer Dad's 4-Year Old Kills Himself with Dad's Stolen Gun, After Dad Passed Out and left Gun Unattended

Houston Police Department

A 4-year-old Houston boy fatally shot himself with his father's stolen handgun Sunday morning, police say.
Marquiez Deshon Pratt, 21, was asleep on the couch when his son, Jaiden, picked up the gun and shot himself in the stomach, according to a report from the Houston Police Department.
The weapon, a .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol, was stolen during a burglary in 2011, according to the police report.
Jaiden was spending the weekend with his father when the incident occurred. The boy's mother dropped him off every Friday and was scheduled to pick him up Sunday at noon, according to the Houston Chronicle.
After the shooting, the elder Pratt ran out of his second-floor apartment with his son in his arms, yelling to his neighbors for help, according to the Houston Chronicle.
When officers arrived, Pratt handed his son over to them and ran back to his apartment.
While some officers pursued Pratt, others performed CPR on the young victim, but the boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
The officers who followed Pratt into his apartment discovered marijuana and crack cocaine along with weighing scales and other items used to sell drugs, according to the police report.
Pratt was arrested and charged with injury to a child by omission and possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.
"He's in mourning. He's in pain and feels a lot of self guilt," Sgt. Brian Harris, of the Houston PD's homicide department, told the Houston Chronicle. "He kept saying, 'I messed up. I messed up.'"

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

About the Gun Issue: I was Raised in a House Full of Guns


The Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting has raised issues about gun control, mental health and is sure keep on raising these issues.  Listening to the gun debate, I have been wondering why people believe that disarming America is the answer to school shootings and gun violence.


This afternoon, I got a call from my friend Ron Kirkish, a trusted advisor on drug policy who often inspires me to follow my instincts.  We spoke at length about the conversation that is taking place in America right now and how banning assault weapons has become a necessity, once again.  At the same time I was also reminded that the gun issue is an issue more familiar to me than I care to recall at times. 

My father (Fred A. Datig) who passed away last year after he lost his battle with cancer, was in the international arms trade.  He was also a world class authority on identifying bullets and firearms from various wars and wrote many technical books about guns, still in circulation today.  

The house I grew up in was three stories with a large basement and guns were everywhere.  We even had disarmed bombs and canons at our house.  My parents were never at PTA meetings, partied all the time and we never went to church as a family.  My father did not believe in God and had a serious drinking and smoking problem.  Looking back at how I turned out in my teens and twenties, one could easily say that my parents made a lot of mistakes when it came to raising me.  And even though I was not raised in a nurturing environment, was exposed to alcoholic rage and guns continuously, the one thing my parents did do right, is they made clear to me that there would be consequences beyond anything I could imagine if I ever touched one of the guns in our house.  In all the years I lived in that house and with all the guns that were brought in and out of that house, I never once touched a gun.

Americans are quick to believe that taking guns away from Americans who have a constitutional right to own them, is somehow going to solve the problem we have with gun violence.  I should also mention that while I am an American by birth, I was raised in Switzerland, in a town that had less than 1% crime rate, where everyone had a gun and men had to serve in the military every year until they were retired.

But in this day and age, there is a lot of brainwashing going on and there is no question in my mind, that we are living in dangerous times where we are being influenced by progressives and liberals who are asking us to abandon everything America stands for, disarm America, legalize drugs and censor the truth of what would happen to our society if these things really came to fruition.

There is also the debate on mental health, another topic close to my heart.  The mental health establishment has been looking to diagnosis and drugs in order to treat people’s mental ailments.  To diagnose someone today is much easier than it was sixty years ago, when the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders had 40 ailments, considered to be serious mental disorders.  Today, these disorders have gone beyond 4,000 and counting.  Assessment models to identify these ailments are limited and plain.  But if there’s one thing we can count on, it is that there is a drug for every disorder and horrific side affects to go along with it.  To top it all off, we live in a society where we label those we don’t understand and view them as a subculture, out-casting and pushing them away from mainstream popularity. 

If there is one piece of advice I would give to Americans, it would be if you own a gun, be trained in how you should use it and know the laws that apply to you as a gun owner.  Don’t leave it in your house, leave it at your shooting range or gun club.  That should also include your ammo.  The reasons for this is lead exposure.  A change I would like to see legislators make are stricter laws against parents whose children end up playing with their guns or God forbid worse.

If you need to have a gun in your house, lock it in a secure place, where it is out of sight.  If you have kids, tell them first that you love them and hug them often but if they touch your gun they will face serious consequences such as being grounded. 

In my opinion, if you are not going to respect what your gun represents, you should not use it, nor should you have a gun.  A gun is for protection and for placing intruders on notice.  Chances are, if you understand what your gun represents, you will never understand what it means to shoot somebody in anger, but rather in self-defense as a last resort - if at all. 


Let’s keep America strong and let it’s Constitution bring us the freedom and liberty we love.  Be it guns, mental health or drug abuse, Education will make America strong.  When we understand the facts, we will understand our impulses. 

God bless the people of Newtown Connecticut and God bless America.