Australia had a bad problem with gun violence some years back and they solved it by banning all repeating weapons. Banning guns does work.

I never heard that before, I know the Las Vegas shooter was a heavy user of Klonopin, and he showed typical signs of psychosis that are linked to the use of Benzodiazepines; do you know of other shooters who had this problem.

We're hacking at leaves and ignoring the roots.

The problem isn't actually the drugs. It is the lack of follow-up care and counseling. The consequences to taking SSRI's and antipsychotics have been known for some time, but just like chantrix they are prescribed anyway to treat the imbalance. Incidents like they speak of here are supposed to be caught in follow-up and counseling. Our problem is lack of funding locally, state, and nationally in the area of mental services and horrid coverage in the area by insurance.

Talk to kids from when they are small, and as teenagers let them start to drink beer, have safe sex, steadily ease into living a normal life and they may not get quite so screwed up. Talking therapies always work better than medication

Psychiatric drugs? What rubbish science. There are 100s of medications for mental health conditions and 100s of ways to take each one. For serious conditions such as schizophrenia caution and hopefully careful monitoring should follow each and every prescription. I can see a potential link with some antidepressants due to their well documented conditions in the young. However again, early monitoring, talking therapies and later age of prescriptions cuts any concerns down to virtually zero. In UK we do not prescribe under 25.

Okay, so let's say there is a link. What should be done about it? Considering we currently have an administration that wants to dismantle healthcare including mental health care. One SHOULD be under the care of a doctor while on psychotropic medications because they are not a one size fits all solution. How can that be done if health care is so difficult to get for some people. Now, in some cases, it looks like the withdrawal from the medication was a problem so the person stopped taking it, probably without the doctor knowing. Perhaps it was a case of the wrong medication (this happens, some of the medications can actually make depression worse). Again, supervision by a health care professional trained on these types of medications is important. We have people returning from a war mentally damaged. There are other situations where people for one reason or another are on these medications. So, let's say that there is a link between the two, what should happen? We're still not addressing some of the other issues, the heavy use of guns in the US, the lack of mental health care in this country, the lack of veterans' care in this country for those coming back from the decades' long war we've been fighting. It very well could be a piece of the puzzle but all of those pieces have to be addressed.