THE GIANT, GAPING HOLE IN SANDY HOOK REPORTING

[Dand]

THE GIANT, GAPING HOLE IN SANDY HOOK REPORTING
Exclusive: David Kupelian says 1 piece of crucial information has yet to be disclosed

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/the-giant-gaping-hole-in-sandy-hook-reporting/#L9zaB4SsLdE2L0sp.99

..........."But where, I’d like to ask my colleagues in the media, is the reporting about the psychiatric medications the perpetrator – who had been under treatment for mental-health problems – may have been taking? After all, Mark and Louise Tambascio, family friends of the shooter and his mother, were interviewed on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” during which Louise Tambascio told correspondent Scott Pelley: “I know he was on medication and everything, but she homeschooled him at home cause he couldn’t deal with the school classes sometimes, so she just homeschooled Adam at home. And that was her life.” And here, Tambascio tells ABC News, “I knew he was on medication, but that’s all I know.”
..............So, what is the truth? Where is the journalistic curiosity? Where is the follow-up? Where is the police report, the medical examiner’s report, the interviews with his doctor and others?

..............As I documented in “How Evil Works,” it is simply indisputable that most perpetrators of school shootings and similar mass murders in our modern era were either on – or just recently coming off of – psychiatric medications:

Columbine mass-killer Eric Harris was taking Luvox – like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor and many others, a modern and widely prescribed type of antidepressant drug called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs. Harris and fellow student Dylan Klebold went on a hellish school shooting rampage in 1999 during which they killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 24 others before turning their guns on themselves.Luvox manufacturer Solvay Pharmaceuticals concedes that during short-term controlled clinical trials, 4 percent of children and youth taking Luvox – that’s 1 in 25 – developed mania, a dangerous and violence-prone mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement and delusion.

*  Patrick Purdy went on a schoolyard shooting rampage in Stockton, Calif., in 1989, which became the catalyst for the original legislative frenzy to ban “semiautomatic assault weapons” in California and the nation. The 25-year-old Purdy, who murdered five children and wounded 30, had been on Amitriptyline, an antidepressant, as well as the antipsychotic drug Thorazine.

*  Kip Kinkel, 15, murdered his parents in 1998 and the next day went to his school, Thurston High in Springfield, Ore., and opened fire on his classmates, killing two and wounding 22 others. He had been prescribed both Prozac and Ritalin.

*  In 1988, 31-year-old Laurie Dann went on a shooting rampage in a second-grade classroom in Winnetka, Ill., killing one child and wounding six. She had been taking the antidepressant Anafranil as well as Lithium, long used to treat mania.

*  In Paducah, Ky., in late 1997, 14-year-old Michael Carneal, son of a prominent attorney, traveled to Heath High School and started shooting students in a prayer meeting taking place in the school’s lobby, killing three and leaving another paralyzed. Carneal reportedly was on Ritalin.

*  In 2005, 16-year-old Native American Jeff Weise, living on Minnesota’s Red Lake Indian Reservation, shot and killed nine people and wounded five others before killing himself. Weise had been taking Prozac.......

....... [there is a very long list in the original article and some drug companies eventually list such problems as potential side effects ]
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/the-giant-gaping-hole-in-sandy-hook-reporting/#L9zaB4SsLdE2L0sp.99
 

[Dand]

The article is quite long but here is the last couple paragraphs.  I think this aspect needs to get forwarded to our Congress as part of the package to consider in the gun control debate.


..........."Some critics suggest these official omissions are motivated by a desire to protect the drug companies from ruinous product liability claims. Indeed, pharmaceutical manufacturers are nervous about lawsuits over the “rare adverse effects” of their mood-altering medications. To avoid costly settlements and public relations catastrophes – such as when GlaxoSmithKline was ordered to pay $6.4 million to the family of 60-year-old Donald Schnell who murdered his wife, daughter and granddaughter in a fit of rage shortly after starting on Paxil – drug companies’ legal teams have quietly and skillfully settled hundreds of cases out-of-court, shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars to plaintiffs. Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly fought scores of legal claims against Prozac in this way, settling for cash before the complaint could go to court while stipulating that the settlement remain secret – and then claiming it had never lost a Prozac lawsuit.All of which is, once again, to respectfully but urgently ask the question: When on earth are we going to find out if the perpetrator of the Sandy Hook school massacre, like so many other mass shooters, had been taking psychiatric drugs?

In the end, it may well turn out that knowing what kinds of guns he used isn’t nearly as important as what kind of drugs he used.
That is, assuming we ever find out.
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[tom548]

Another big hole in this story is weather the guy used Hand guns or hand guns and the .223 rifle. One story is that it was found in his car and the other it was in the school with him. I also have not found any reports from the Med. exam. on recovered bullets and the caliber and type.

[Mikey]

Dand:  I honestly do not think this is a conspiracy of the drug companies to avoid liabilities, I think it is a conspiracy of the media to cloud the real issues so the focus can be put on something more tangible, guns.  It is much more difficult to try and change mental health laws, require information gathering and sharing at all levels of mental health provision and also within hospitals, and relax mental health privacy laws so information can be shared between police agencies and the mental health data bases, than it is to restrict guns based on emotional issues. 
 
Guns are tangible things people can get a handle on, so to speak.  Privacy issues and mental health information can become so very convoluted that decisive action on those untangibles is much more difficult. 

[BUGEYE]

Dand:  I honestly do not think this is a conspiracy of the drug companies to avoid liabilities, I think it is a conspiracy of the media to cloud the real issues so the focus can be put on something more tangible, guns.  It is much more difficult to try and change mental health laws, require information gathering and sharing at all levels of mental health provision and also within hospitals, and relax mental health privacy laws so information can be shared between police agencies and the mental health data bases, than it is to restrict guns based on emotional issues. 
 
Guns are tangible things people can get a handle on, so to speak.  Privacy issues and mental health information can become so very convoluted that decisive action on those untangibles is much more difficult.

Yes.

[Dand]

Yes, much easier to attack guns if one is predisposed to oppose them.


 AND we know probably Millions of people use the various meds listed in this article - it wouldn't be popular to implicate them and difficult to discuss.  No doubt a lot of people are helped by the meds.  Still, I was struck by the extensive number of gun atrocities linked to people using such drugs. I suspect the mass shooting we had in Alaska - Bethel - one of the earliest school shootings - the kid was also probably medicated.  He also came from a family known for instability.


I don't go for conspiracy stuff much but it seems we really should be looking at all aspects of this mass murder phenomenon. If drugs are part of it, it should be on the table.  Maybe added precautions should be advised when they are prescribed - like at least one of the meds does now.


And I'm sure the anti gunners would accuse us of just trying to obscure and deflect the discussion.
I hope it is given some attention.