Roddy Stinson And Police Health Insurance

Guns don't kill people, community mental health care kills people

The right to bear arms is not so expansive that reasonable limits aren't already imposed. You generally can't have a machine gun. Or a howitzer. Or grenades. Or shoulder-fired missiles. Not prejudging his guilt or innocence, but there is no reason Gonzales or anyone else should have an assault weapon that accommodates a 90-round snail drum. They have the potential not just to kill but to overkill. The case he is using as his springboard for another insult to law-abiding gun owners is the one I talked about just a few days ago .  The shooter was Mark Anthony Gonzales, who was strung out on alcohol and anti-depression meds when he killed Deputy Vann.  At this point, anything I say is mere speculation, but I can almost guarantee this: depression was not Gonzales's only problem.  I would wager that he's got a long history of mental health issues.  Let's look at Gonzales's issue, depression.  There are brain chemistry differences apparent in patients with clinical depression--a deficiency in serotonin, typically  The largest current class of anti-depression medicines is called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors .  What these do is partially block absorption of serotonin so that extracellular levels increase.  Sounds good, right?  Well, here's the thing.  One possible side effect of SSRIs is a doubled risk of suicide (this may well account for the fact that suicide is more likely in a depressed person who is in recovery): 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. You see the obvious connection here, right?

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