snakehawk wrote:
> The gun-grabbers are crawling out of their holes and swarming all over
> the media. Everytime some nut kills someone, the gun-grabbers start
> barking their familiar "Guns kill," or any number of ignorant chants
> that ignore the known fact that the overwhelming majority of the
> billions of guns owned by Americans never kill anything. Most of them
> are never even fired, and the small fraction that are ever fired are
> used in hunting, sport, and protection. And in the overwhelming
> majority of those instances, no one is killed or injured.
>
> But the rabid gun-hating fanatics never--but never--criticize the
> widespread dispensation of prescription drugs that have been behind
> every recent shootig tragedy. I am speaking of the psychotropic
> drugs, the kind of drugs that are known to convert otherwise law
> abiding and docile souls into suicidal shooters, drugs like Lithium,
> Prozac, Ritalin, Haldol, Mellaril, Risperdal, Effexor, Remeron,
> Wellbutrin, Zyprexa, and many many others.
>
> Cho, the Virginia killer, was on a prescription medication related to
> the treatment of psychological problems. Andrea Yates, famed for
> drowning her five small children, had been prescribed Effexor,
> Remeron, and Wellbutrin, and at the time she mindlessly killed her own
> children, she was on Haldol. Eric Harris, the student responsible for
> the Columbine school killings was on Luvox. Fifteen-year-old Shawn
> Cooper was on Ritalin when he fired a gun at his school. It's time the
> gun grabbers start to realize that guns don't kill-- people under the
> influence of psychotropic drugs kill.
>
Wonderful argument, wonderful argument.
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