I guess I'm just more familiar with guns. I've been around them my whole life. They don't make me feel uneasy.
I agree that they should be regulated. I just think it has to be sensible.
I also think that trying to frame the debate around 'gun control'...which is exactly what is happening right now, is pretty sad, when the US has a serious healthcare problem, and as an extension, a serious problem with mental illness.
We've got everyone from Rick Perry saying teachers should carry, to every single news organization in the world running statistics on how gun control can or won't work, to MOST of the replies in this thread being about gun control, and not about what made this guy snap.
Has anyone actually bothered to look at the pills he was taking?
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Inside the piece though they report Adam Lanza's uncle said the boy was prescribed Fanapt, a controversial anti-psychotic medicine.
Fanapt was the subject of a Bloomberg report when it passed regulators, after previously getting the "nonapproval" stamp. Why wasn't it approved, you might ask?
There are many reasons, some of which have to do with competing entities in a competitive market.
The main cited reason for the rejection was that it caused severe heart problems in enough patients to cause a stir.
Maybe more importantly, though, Fanapt is one of a many drugs the FDA pumped out with an ability to exact the opposite desired effect on people: that is, you know, inducing rather than inhibiting psychosis and aggressive behavior.
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