There are a lot of things that can push people over the edge these days, but we have to worry about prescription of anitdepressants and anti-psychotics combined with easy access to assault weapons.

behind the spate of family homicides is not just the economy, job stress and failing marriages, but a government that approved a cohort of psychoactive drugs with proven homicidal and suicidal side effects. Blockbuster antidepressants and anti-psychotics that are kept on the market despite the blood baths they can cause so drug companies can get their patent’s worth.

And it’s a government that allows unlimited weapon arsenals — including military and assault-style weapons — in the hands of everyone, including the unbalanced on “depression” drugs, only to act surprised when another entire family — everyone who was home — is killed.

via What’s Behind the Epidemic of Family-Killings? Could it Be Anti-Depressants? | Health and Wellness | AlterNet.

For a generation now, disruptive young Americans who rebel against authority figures have been increasingly diagnosed with mental illnesses and medicated with psychiatric (psychotropic) drugs. AlterNet: Health and Wellness: How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness