And lo on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:19:50 -0000, Sabrina Kilian <"ykgp at  
vtSPAM.edu"> did spake, saying:

> alphaQuad wrote:
>> If you cant realize that these drugs should have never been approved,  
>> then I
>> waste my breath and time on you.
>>
>> Do this or you become partially responsible for all future shootings.  
>> Ignoring
>> this suggestion will be noticed by everyone watching all that goes on  
>> here and
>> it will not be forgotten how scared and spineless you were to do what  
>> is right.
>
> Psychiatric drugs are prescribed for a reason, and some how I don't
> believe that every doctor writing those prescriptions is some how in the
> pocket of the drug companies trying to get another person hooked on them
> and profiting.

Well put, from the point of view of the doctors it's got FDA-approved on  
it and that's that.

> Besides, simple economics will tell you that in most
> cases, you don't sell stuff that kills the user.[1]

Depends on the return and numbers of potential victi... customers.

> And, you might check
> your facts in your webpage, I don't believe Cho was on Prozac.
>
> Secondly, don't start blaming everyone else. Why is this the fault of
> someone in a completely different state and town, and not the fault of
> some butterfly in China?

You know one of these days we're going to have to track down this damn  
butterfly, first hurricanes now drug-crazed gun crime.

> The blame for these events rests in one person,
> the one who pulled the trigger. We can all scream and rant about how
> everyone else could have stopped them, how someone could have told the
> police the day before if only they had noticed something, or how just
> one detail different could have made the whole event not happen. But
> that doesn't change any of it. One person pulled the trigger.

I'm going to have to slightly disagree with you here, if I give a known  
psychotic the means to go on a rampage in the full knowledge that's what  
he'll do is it still all his fault? The same could be said for giving  
someone a drug you know has side-effects that might exasperate the  
paitent's condition.

-- 
Phil Cook

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