Liberals would like you to believe the NRA is responsible for every school and mass shooting in America. We all know that guns don’t shoot themselves, so why do the media and the politicians who are beholden to major drug companies for ad revenue and campaign contributions ignore the common thread in almost every single mass shooting case over the past 20 years?

Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and it’s not the weapons used.

The overwhelming evidence points to the signal largest common factor in all of these incidents is the fact that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been at some point in the immediate past before they committed their crimes.

Multiple credible scientific studies going back more than a decade, as well as internal documents from certain pharmaceutical companies that suppressed the information, show that SSRI drugs ( Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors ) have well known, but unreported side effects, including but not limited to suicide and other violent behavior.
In 2012, Gary G. Kohls, MD warned of the effects these powerful psychotropic drugs were having on our society: Recently I mentioned in this column the existence of a remarkable database of serious SSRI adverse effects (“selective” serotonin reuptake inhibitors, the so-called “second generation ‘antidepressants’”) that resulted in criminal acts that had been reported in the public domain. That website can be accessed at  HYPERLINK “http://www.ssristories.com” www.ssristories.com.

When researching that important website, I realized that the vast majority of media reports on such seemingly irrational events usually don’t ask the question about what crazy-making drugs the perpetrators might have been taking – unless the drugs were illicit ones.

So the thousands of examples documented on that website represent just the tip of what surely is an enormous iceberg, since even the FDA estimates that up to 99% of adverse effects from any given drug are never reported to that agency.

After the Las Vegas massacre, actress Kirstie Alley tweeted about the common demoninator of “shooters” are psychiatric drugs. As noted in the list below, Valium was prescribed by a phsyciatrist for Stephen Maddock only 4 months prior to the massacre.

One additional common denominator of "shooters" is USA's mass usage of psychiatric drugs. A % do have side effects of VIOLENCE & SUICIDE.

— Kirstie Alley (@kirstiealley) October 2, 2017

What serious SSRI adverse effects is the PDR trying to warn us about when we prescribe antidepressants?

The Physicians’ Desk Reference (PDR) lists the following common adverse reactions to SSRI antidepressants (among a host of other physical and neuropsychiatric effects).  None of these adverse reactions is listed as Rare.

Manic Reaction (Mania, e.g., Kleptomania, Pyromania, Dipsomania, Nymphomania)
Hypomania (e.g., poor judgment, over spending, impulsivity, etc.)
Abnormal Thinking
Hallucinations
Personality Disorder
Amnesia
Agitation
Psychosis
Abnormal Dreams
Emotional Lability
Alcohol Abuse and/or Craving
Hostility
Paranoid Reactions
Confusion
Delusions
Sleep Disorders
Akathisia (Severe Inner Restlessness)
Withdrawal  Syndromes
Impulsivity

It doesn’t take a genius to recognize that any of the above drug-induced mental aberrations could pass as mental illness.

It should be emphasized that so-called adverse reactions are most likely to occur when starting or discontinuing the drug, increasing or lowering the dose, or when switching from one SSRI to another.  Adverse reactions are often misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or some other “mental illness of unknown origin” when the symptoms may be entirely iatrogenic (treatment induced). Withdrawal, especially abrupt withdrawal, from any of these medications can cause severe neuropsychiatric and physical symptoms that can also cause the above signs and symptoms. It is important to withdraw extremely slowly from these drugs, often over a period of a year or more, under the supervision of a qualified and experienced specialist, if available.  Withdrawal is sometimes more severe than the original symptoms or problems.

SSRI “adverse reactions” are actually expected and understandable and, therefore, should not be surprising to physicians. They are not actually “side effects”

The following is a list of mass shooting perpetrators and the drugs they were taking or had been taking shortly before their horrific actions.

A large portion of the list below was compiled and published to Facebook by John Noveske, founder and owner of Noveske Rifleworks, just days before he was mysteriously killed in a single-car accident. Is there a link between Noveske’s death and his “outing” of information numerous disparate parties would prefer to suppress for a variety of reasons?
I leave that to the individual readers to decide. But there is most certainly a documented history of people who “knew to much” or were considered a “threat” dying under extraordinarily suspicious circumstances. –Ammoland

Here’s 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.

  

• Seth Trickey, at age 13, was on numerous prescription medications and undergoing psychological counseling when he opened fire on his middle-school classmates in Muskogee, Okla., in 2000, wounding five.
• Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.

  

  The jury convicted Chris Pittman on two counts of murder in the 2001 slayings of his paternal grandparents, Joe and Joy Pittman.

  In closing arguments Monday, prosecutor John Meadors belittled the defense’s contention that Zoloft influenced Pittman, then 12, to carry out the shootings, calling such an argument a “smoke screen.”

  “The only issue is — did he know the difference between right and wrong?” Meadors said.

  “Shooting them in bed with a [.410-gauge shotgun],” he said, “that’s malice, meanness, wickedness.”

  In his closing argument, defense attorney Paul Waldner told jurors, “In this state, in this country, we do not convict children of murder when they’ve been ambushed by chemicals that have destroyed their ability to reason.”

  Defense psychiatrist Dr. Richard Kapit testified that Pittman “did not have the ability to form criminal intent on that date due to intoxication with 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.

  

• Adam Lanza (2012) On Friday morning, 27 people were reportedly shot and killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. According to sources, 18 of these casualties were children. New York Magazine wrote a piece about shooter Adam Lanza’s supposed “Aspergers” syndrome. Inside the piece though, they report Adam Lanza’s uncle said the boy was prescribed Fanapt, a controversial anti-psychotic medicine.
• In fact, Fanapt was dropped by its first producer, picked up by another, initially rejected by the FDA, then later picked up and mass-produced. The adverse side-effect is said to be “infrequent,” but still, it exists and can’t be ignored. The reaction invoked by the drug in some people is reminiscent of the Jeffrey R. MacDonald case, where a Green Beret slaughtered his entire family and then fabricated a story about a marauding troop of “hopped-up hippies.” MacDonald, though, had Eskatrol in his system, a weight-loss amphetamine that’s since been banned in part for its side effects of psychotic behavior and aggression.
• Michael Carneal In Paducah, KY, in late 1997, 14-year-old Michael Carneal, son of a prominent attorney, traveled to Heath High School and started shooting students in a prayer meeting taking place in the school’s lobby, killing three and leaving another paralyzed. Carneal reportedly was on Ritalin.

  

• John Hinckley (1981) John Hinckley, age 25, took four Valium two hours before shooting and almost killing President Ronald Reagan in 1981. In the assassination attempt, Hinckley also wounded press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and policeman Thomas Delahanty.

  

• TJ Solomon, age 15 (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia, opened fire on and wounded six of his classmates.
• Kurt Danysh, age 18, shot his own father to death in 1996, a little more than two weeks after starting on Prozac. Danvsh’s description of his own mental-emotional state at the time of the murder is chilling: “I didn’t realize I did it until after it was done.” Danysh said. “This might sound weird, but it felt like I had no control of what I was doing—like I was left there just holding a gun.”
• Rod Mathews, age 14 (Ritalin), beat a classmate to death with a bat.
• Elizabeth Bush, age 13 (Paxil), was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania.

  

• Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) – school shooting in El Cajon, California
• Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin and Klonopin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledgehammer, hatchet, butcher knife, and mechanic’s file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister.

  

• Alex Kim, age 13, hung himself shortly after his Lexapro prescription had been doubled.
• 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.
• 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.
• Steven Kazmierczak (2008), age 27, opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, killing six and wounding 21. The gunman shot and killed himself before police arrived. Jessica Baty said that her boyfriend of two years had been taking Xanax, used to treat anxiety, and Ambien, a sleep agent, as well as the anti-depressant Prozac. Baty said the psychiatrist prescribed the medications, a fact that made her so “nervous” that she tried to persuade Kazmierczak to stop taking one of the drugs. She said he had stopped taking the anti-depressant three weeks before the Valentine’s Day rampage on the NIU campus in DeKalb, Illinois, which left five students dead and 16 wounded. He then killed himself. Kazmierczak told her he had stopped taking the anti-depressant “because it made him feel like a zombie,” she said during the interview Sunday at her parents’ house in Wonder Lake, Il.

  

• 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.”

  

• Joseph T. Wesbecker (1989) In another famous case, 47-year-old Joseph T. Wesbecker, just a month after he began taking Prozac in 1989, shot 20 workers at Standard Gravure Corp. in Louisville, Ky., killing nine. Prozac maker Eli Lilly later settled a lawsuit brought by survivors.
• Laurie Dann (1988) In 1988, 31-year-old Laurie Dann went on a shooting rampage in a second-grade classroom in Winnetka, IL, killing one child and wounding six. She had been taking the anti-depressant Anafranil as well as Lithium, long used to treat mania.

  

• Patrick Purdy (1989) Patrick Purdy went on a schoolyard shooting rampage in Stockton, CA, in 1989, which became the catalyst for the original legislative frenzy to ban “semiautomatic assault weapons” in California and the nation. The 25-year-old Purdy, who murdered five children and wounded 30, had been on Amitriptvine, an anti-depressant, as well as the antipsychotic drug Thorazine.

  

• 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.
• Stephen Paddock, who killed at least 58 people and wounded hundreds more in Las Vegas on Sunday with high-powered rifles, was prescribed Valium, an anti-anxiety drug in June that can lead to aggressive behavior, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.

  

  Records from the Nevada Prescription Monitoring Program obtained Tuesday show Paddock was prescribed 50 10-milligram diazepam tablets by Henderson physician Dr. Steven Winkler on June 21.

  A woman who answered the phone at Winkler’s office would not make him available to answer questions and would neither confirm nor deny that Paddock was ever a patient.

  Paddock purchased the drug — its brand name is Valium — without insurance at a Walgreens store in Reno on the same day it was prescribed. He was supposed to take one pill a day.

  Diazepam is a sedative-hypnotic drug in the class of drugs known as benzodiazepines, which studies have shown can trigger aggressive behavior. Chronic use or abuse of sedatives such as diazepam can also trigger psychotic experiences, according to drugabuse.com.