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.