Folks, David Codrea of War On Guns has linked to this piece at Market-Ticker
They link to this piece at New York Magazine.
It appears this young man, Adam Lanza was a schizophrenic who was on a new drug known by various names such as, Iloperidone, Fanapt, Fanapta and Zomaril. Psychotics many times act violently. Sometimes the drugs used to treat them make their condition worse. According to various sources, His Mother had been telling people "I'm losing him..." in the weeks before the shooting.
From the Market-Ticker piece,
"Many people may have missed this, and in fact I did until someone on
the forum brought over the quote itself. That drug is a relatively new
one and in fact was the subject of a non-approvable letter originally.
The
name caught my eye because I loosely follow biotech companies and
remembered it from the denial back in 2008. The FDA wanted another
study and more safety data. The company
repackaged and resubmitted the previous study instead, which was a "Hail
Mary" pass that almost-never succeeds. In this case it did and the
company's stock skyrocketed."
And,
"If this is real then we deserve to have this fact out in the open, in public, right
damned now and all political activity associated with alleged
"remedies" must stop until this allegation is fully vetted and either
proved up or disproved, in public.
If this is true
there is no gun law that would have stopped this event; if he could
not have gotten a gun he would have used a gallon of gasoline, a
home-made bomb, a knife, something, anything. We know he was willing to
kill his own mother to acquire the weapons -- he would have killed a
cop, a random person on the street, or a store clerk.
If this allegation is true this mass-murder was not about guns at all.
The
point here, folks, is that there is simply no way to remove from
society all of the tools and things that someone can use to commit
murder, even mass-murder, if they have voices in their head telling them to kill people."
Go read the links.
YOU MUST read it all. Then call your local radio shows and television stations. Call your Congressmen and Senators.
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Now the article has this footnote:
Editor's Note: This post originally cited a report in the Daily News that quoted Adam Lanza's uncle as saying he was taking an anti-psychotic drug called Fanapt. The Daily News subsequently deleted the quote. It is now unclear whether Lanza was taking Fanapt.
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