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Redneck_Buddha wrote:It's really as simple as reading the possible side effects on the inserts to these drugs:

From the Harvard Medical School Journal:

*Suicide. The risk that antidepressants will incite violent or self-destructive actions has become the subject of renewed controversy. One reason for concern is the increasing number of children and adolescents receiving prescriptions for antidepressants. When compared with a placebo, all antidepressants, including SSRIs, seem to double the risk of suicidal thinking, from 1%–2% to 2%–4%, in both children and adults.

Full entry is here:

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Black box suicide warning on SSRI medication is applicable to patients 24 and under. Lanza was 20, Holmes, 25.

Again, you are using the legal garbage that is packed with every prescription listing every possible side effect. Remember this though next time you use a screwdriver because we all know they cause blindness- if you don't wear safety glasses.

The problem with your argument is that one of the most (if not the most) prescribed meds are anti-depressants. Years ago there was a big push to not prescribe these meds to teens because they possibly were linked to teen suicide. So the anti-depressants were cut back and teen suicide rate actually went up. There is more to this and that is just the fact that there are crazy people out there. We all know it, we all have met them at one time or another. There is no way to identify these people unless you look at disability records where young people with "bipolar" disorder are already on Medicare because they are disabled. I wonder if they can pass a background check. Some of them are very functional on their meds- but watch out if they stop them. The fact is that crazy people when they decide to kill do it with whatever weapon they can get- knife, gun, car, whatever- and there is no way to prevent them because there is no way to identify them beforehand.