Joseph Mercola, writing in the Epoch Times, shares some interesting insights (not all his own) into the ongoing problem of mass murder. The apparent truth is that even the unhinged have the sense to choose soft targets.
“According to the Crime Prevention Research Center,4 97.8 percent of public shootings occur in ‘gun-free zones’ – and ‘gun-free zones’ are the epitome of the core philosophical tenet of gun control, that laws are all the defense one needs against violence…”
Resistance isn’t futile. The mere presumption that it could exist keeps would-be shooters from choosing locations where people might shoot back. The common-sense response is to expand the spaces where that seems likely. The Left’s position, almost always being to do the opposite of what makes sense, is to create safe spaces for shooters, not citizens or their children.
And to then punish the law-abiding for the acts of criminals.
“…to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow.” -Jeff Snyder
It is plain enough language that points to simple a truth, but what follows might surprise a few. Mercola explores the possible link between drugs used to treat mental health (depression more specifically) and the rise of mass shootings.
The fact is, depression per se rarely results in violence. Only after antidepressants became commonplace did mass shootings take off, and many mass shooters have been shown to be on antidepressants.
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How can we possibly ignore the connection between rampant use of drugs known to directly cause violent behavior and the rise in mass shootings? Suicidal ideation, violence and homicidal ideation are all known side effects of these drugs. Sometimes, the drugs disrupt brain function so dramatically the perpetrator can’t even remember what they did.
Every time someone shoots up some soft target, the conversation shifts to punishing the law-abiding (rights and liberties based solely upon the conduct of criminals) and calls for more money to address issues related to mental health.
What if the problem is not so much Mental Health as it is how we treat it?
Mercola has more to say about it here if you’re interested.
