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Does anyone else feel that the increase in the use of Prozac and other anti-depressants are playing a role in the mass shootings?

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OwnerOfMany · 90-99, M
HELL YES! But nearly no one will mention it. Look at how many shooters have been on psychotropic drugs.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@OwnerOfMany Rightoids mention it all the time 🤷‍♂️

But it's nonsense.
OwnerOfMany · 90-99, M
@QuixoticSoul Clarify your meaning that it is nonsense. What is nonsense?
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@OwnerOfMany The theory that mass shootings are driven by psychotropic drugs, or that that mass shooters are even on said drugs in any unusual proportion.
OwnerOfMany · 90-99, M
@QuixoticSoul You are incorrect in the number that are/were on psychotropic drugs. As for driven by them, I would not say "driven" but I would say there is a connection.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@OwnerOfMany No I'm not.
OwnerOfMany · 90-99, M
@QuixoticSoul Yes, you are.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
OwnerOfMany · 90-99, M
@QuixoticSoul I'm not going to dance with you over your opinion. Research says you are wrong.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@OwnerOfMany Which research?

OwnerOfMany · 90-99, M
@QuixoticSoul LOL...are you joking? Check who backed that research.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@OwnerOfMany Who do you think backed for that research?
indyjoe · 56-60, M
@OwnerOfMany In most of the cases I have read the investigations about...the majority of the perpetrators WERE on medications but had stopped taking them.
OwnerOfMany · 90-99, M
@indyjoe My point was that they either are or were on psychotropic drugs.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@OwnerOfMany but they largely weren’t 🤷‍♂️
OwnerOfMany · 90-99, M
@QuixoticSoul By "were" I meant "had been". They either were taking or had been taking psychotropic drugs at one time.
indyjoe · 56-60, M
@OwnerOfMany What I was saying is that the drugs are not to blame...most of those people had been taking them and they were helping. The problems came when they stopped taking them.
OwnerOfMany · 90-99, M
@indyjoe I was not blaming the drugs in whole, I was saying there was a connection, and there was.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@OwnerOfMany But it seems that they haven't 🤷‍♂️