However, since the pharmaceutical
companies are dishing out LOTS of money to media outlets, do you suppose there
could be a reason the SSRI connection isn’t being mentioned? Why just in 2020,
the pharmaceutical industry spent 4.58 billion U.S dollars on advertising on
national TV in the United States, unsurprisingly representing a big shift in
spending compared to the 2019 pre-covid market. A big shift? Well one BILLION
more. In 2020 TV ad spending of the pharma industry accounted for 75 percent of
the total ads paid. In 2016 3.1 BILLION. In 2017 3.45 BILLION. In 2018 3.73
BILLION. In 2019 3.79 BILLION. The total for just FIVE years is $18.65 BILLION
on advertising. So do you possibly think that a loss of revenue of that amount
if the media talked about this connection would be an issue? Or would they just
shut up and keep blaming gun owners and guns for the mayhem? That answer is
obvious. It the GUN. It’s those GUN NUTS! And yet most of the mass shooters
purchased them legally WITH background checks or in the case of Adam Lanza
killed his own mother and took the rifle she owned on the shooting spree.
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"The SSRI Connection to Suicides, Spontaneous Murder, and Mass Shootings," Mark Reynolds, July 23, 2022.
Do we need MORE GUN CONTROL? Or BETTER PRESCRIPTION DRUG
CONTROL? "The SSRI Connection to Suicides, Spontaneous Murder, and Mass Shootings," Mark Reynolds, July 23, 2022.
Reason, logic and common sense should dictate the correct answer.
A mass shooting is defined as an incident where four or more
people are shot. So far this year, the numbers average out to 11 mass shootings
per week. 2021 saw a total of 692 mass shootings throughout the year.
Year 2022, just the first six months: – January: 41 mass
shootings, 59 dead, 128 wounded February: 43 mass shootings, 40 dead, 174 wounded
March: 52 mass shootings, 47 dead, 217 wounded- April: 66 mass shootings, 75
dead, 271 wounded- May: 67 mass shootings, 87 dead, 324 wounded-June: 68 mass
shootings, 78 dead, 275 wounded- These numbers accumulate to a total of 386
people dead and 1,389 people wounded.
I’m not sure how The Scotsman reporter Rachael Davies who
wrote the article on 05/07/2022 came up with May and June numbers…but hey,
that’s main stream media for you!
Now let’s take a look at mass shootings in the USA before 1968
and we will go back as far as 1954. 1968 was the year massive gun control
reform was passed with the Gun Control Act. One of the provisions was that no
longer could a rehabilitated felon ever have possession of a firearm. Let’s
look at mass shootings prior to that day and realize that firearms were taken
to school by boys who were going hunting afterward and could be seen in the
back windows of their pickups. That you could easily obtain firearms from a
Sears & Roebuck catalog without background checks at all and have one sent
directly to your home with no FFL dealer involved.
Year, 1968. Country USA. Mass shootings,
ONE: The Robison family murders, also referred to as the Good
Hart murders, were the mass murders of Richard Robison, his wife Shirley
Robison and their four children; Ritchie, Gary, Randy, and Susan on June 25,
1968
1967 NONE
1966 TWO
On August 1, 1966, after stabbing his mother and his wife to
death the previous night, Charles Whitman, a Marine veteran, took rifles and
other weapons to the observation deck atop the Main Building tower at the
University of Texas at Austin, and then opened fire indiscriminately on people
on the surrounding campus and streets. Over the next 96 minutes he shot and
killed 14 people, including an unborn child, and injured 31 other people. The
incident ended when two policemen and a civilian reached Whitman and shot him
dead. At the time, the attack was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman
in U.S. history, being surpassed 18 years later by the San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre.
It has been suggested that Whitman’s violent impulses, with
which he had been struggling for several years, were caused by a tumor found in
the white matter above his amygdala upon autopsy.
On November 12, 1966, 18-year-old Robert Smith shot and killed
five people, 4 women and a toddler, and injured two others at the Rose-Mar
College of Beauty in Mesa, Arizona. All seven victims had been shot and one of
the victims who initially survived her wounds was stabbed in the back.
The shooting is considered to be the first copycat mass shooting
with Smith indicating that he had wanted to kill more than Charles Whitman, the
perpetrator of the University of Texas tower shooting earlier the same year.
1965 ONE
Late on the night of April 24, 1965, Michael Andrew Clark, who
lived in Long Beach, California, left home in his parents’ car, without their
permission. In the back of the car, he had a Swedish Mauser military bolt
action rifle equipped with telescopic sight and a pistol he had removed from
his father’s locked gun safe along with a large quantity of ammunition. Early
the next Sunday morning, he climbed to the top of a hill overlooking a stretch
of Highway 101 near Orcutt. As the sun came up, Clark began shooting at
automobiles driving down the 101 highway.
Two were killed and six more were wounded as the shooting
continued for hours before Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office deputies
rushed the hill and Clark committed suicide as they closed in. A
five-year-old-boy wounded in the head died a day later bringing the total to
three dead for the rampage.
Reportedly the two men killed at the scene of the shooting were
attempting to assist others who were trapped in a vehicle which had been hit by
the gunfire.
1964 NONE
1963 NONE
1962 NONE
1961 NONE
1960 NONE
1959 NONE
1958 NONE
1957 NONE
1956 NONE
1955 NONE
1954 ONE
The 1954 United States Capitol shooting was an attack on March
1, 1954, by four Puerto Rican nationalists who sought to promote the cause of
Puerto Rico’s independence from US rule. They fired 30 rounds from
semi-automatic pistols onto the legislative floor from the Ladies’ Gallery (a
balcony for visitors) of the House of Representatives chamber within the United
States Capitol.
The nationalists, identified as Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel
Miranda, Andres Figueroa Cordero, and Irvin Flores RodrÃguez, unfurled a Puerto
Rican flag and began shooting at Representatives in the 83rd Congress, who were
debating an immigration bill. Five Representatives were wounded, one seriously,
but all recovered. The assailants were arrested, tried and convicted in federal
court, and given long sentences, amounting to life imprisonment. In 1978 and
1979, their sentences were commuted by President Jimmy Carter. All four
returned to Puerto Rico.
Was there a lack of guns? Obviously not. There were M1 Garands
from WWII that the NRA purchased and made available for a low price to members
as part of the Civilian Marksmanship program. There were M1 Carbine from WWII
and lots of 1911 .45 pistols, lots of WWI Springfield rifles, lots of lever
action rifles that could hold 7-10 rounds. There were shotguns from Belgium,
there were pistols from Germany and Poland.
Some schools in the south had civilian marksmanship classes to
teach children marksmanship and how to properly handle firearms.
Keep reading Mark's fascinating article, . . .
Mark lives with his wife
Kathy of 45 years in the place most folks call Arkansas. The major turning
point in his life was after reading the small book “Letters to Jessica” by
Robert Bisset and "The Age of Reason" by Thomas Paine back in the
1990’s. He can be reached here: markreynolds_bhg5@gmail.com
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