It's the DRUGS   Not The Guns   by  Lawrence A. Hunter Social Security Institute Recently by Lawrence A. Hunter:  Gun Control Tramples On the Certain Virtues of a Heavily Armed Citizenry http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php   Watch the   VIDEO   revealing the indisputable connection between psychiatric drugs and young "lone-wolf" shooters in gun massacres and other acts of violence. Pharmaceutical makers, not gun owners, should be held to account for the series of "lone-wolf," mass shootings that have occurred since the widespread use of psychiatric drugs began.   In 2000, New York legislators recognized the ubiquitous and unambiguous connection between violence, especially gun violence and mass murder, and the widespread prescribed use of psychiatric drugs. Senate Bill 7035 was introduced in the New York State Senate that year requiring police agencies to report to the Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) on certain crimes and suicides committed by a person who is using psychiatric drugs, including assault, homicide, sex offenses, robbery offenses, firearms and other dangerous weapons offenses, kidnapping and arson. The preamble to the bill read, in part: "There is a large body of scientific research establishing a connection between violence and suicide and the use of psychotropic drugs in some cases. This research, which has been published in peer reviewed publications such as the American Journal of Psychiatry, The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and The Journal of Forensic Science, has shown, among other things, that: certain drugs can induce mania (a psychosis which can produce bizarre, grandiose and highly elaborated destructive plans, including mass murder);. . .and certain drugs can produce an acute psychotic reaction in an individual not previously psychotic." The bill died in committee. Since that time, there have been at least 12 additional high-profile mass murders linked to the use of psychiatric drugs, about one a year. And, in virtually every mass school shooting during the past 15 years, the shooter has been on or in withdrawal from psychiatric drugs. Here is a partial   http://www.cchrint.org/2012/07/20/the-aurora-colorado-tragedy-another-sensel