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they do cause some to lose it and go postal.

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I think the common theme is that all these ppl have psychiatric illness, not that they were being treated.

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Correlation is not causation. There are millions of people on these drugs that don't shoot up public places.

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1) The first mass shooting to rock the nation was in 1966. Charles Whitman, known as the University of Texas Tower shooter, stabbed his wife and mother to death, then killed 15 and wounded 31. Shortly before that he was prescribed diazepam sold under the brand name Valium.

2) Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock was also sold Valium, in June of that year. Diazepam was also prescribed for John Hinckley Jr. before his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

3) Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 13 at Columbine High School. Eric was on Luvox, an antidepressant. Clinical trials revealed that 4 percent of youth taking Luvox developed "a dangerous and violence-prone mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement and delusion.”

4) The Virginia Tech shooter who killed 32 people was on an antidepressant.

5) Having regularly taken Prozac, Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and stepmother. He then shot 22 classmates.

6) Jason Hoffman shot 5 at his high school while he was on Effexor, also an antidepressant

7) James Holmes opened fire in a Colorado movie theater killing 12 people and wounding 58. He was taking Sertraline sold as Zoloft, an SSRI antidepressant

8) Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza was prescribed both Lexapro and Celexa

9) The Parkland High shooter according to child service reports was also on an unnamed medication following instances of self-cutting and posting it on social media, as well as admitting he was depressed

11) Patrick Purdy murdered 5 children and wounded 30 in a schoolyard shooting rampage in Stockton, California He was prescribed Amitriptyline, an antidepressant, as well as the antipsychotic drug Thorazine.

12) The Navy Yard shooter killed 13 people including himself. He had been prescribed an antidepressant Trazodone by Veterans Affairs.

14) Laurie Dann went on a shooting rampage in a second-grade classroom in Winnetka, Ill., killing 1 child and wounding 6. She had been taking the antidepressant Anafranil as well as Lithium, long used to treat mania.

15) Jeff Weise, living on Minnesota’s Red Lake Indian Reservation, shot and killed 9 people and wounded 5 others before killing himself. Weise had been taking Prozac.

16) Joseph Wesbecker, just a month after he began taking Prozac, shot 20 in Louisville, Kentucky, killing 9. Prozac-maker Eli Lilly later settled a lawsuit brought by survivors.

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