[Pharmwaste] Front Sight Special Blog: Psych Drugs, Not Guns, Doing the Killing

[Gilliam, Allen]

I've already apologized to the listserve as a whole and its manager for the post.  If I could take the article back, I would.  I truly didn't want to make this a case emphasizing gun control or lack thereof.  My sincerest apologies if I offended anyone.

Suffice it to say I've been castigated enough to be more selective in what I post to this listserve in the future....

Allen Gilliam
ADEQ State Pretreatment Coordinator
501.682.0625

From: Fred [mailto:kwsincr at aim.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:59 AM
To: Gilliam, Allen; pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
Subject: Re: [Pharmwaste] Front Sight Special Blog: Psych Drugs, Not Guns, Doing the Killing

Mr. Gilliam,

First, let me say that this forum is not the place for this discussion.

Second, as a Connecticut resident with grandchildren in a school system only a few miles from Newtown, I am appalled at the continuing belief on the part of many gun advocates that it is perfectly fine  to have weapons of mass destruction readily available to the general public.  The Second Amendment was written in a time when only a very few people had guns and was intended to allow these people, and others who were so inclined, to be armed in a regulated militia.  It was in a time when a very young country with no standing army had large, powerful external enemies.

Unfortunately,here in the 21st century in the immortal words of Pogo - "We has met the enemy and they is us!"

Yes, we no doubt over medicate our youth - and our population in general - but that does not excuse the fact that those very few "over medicated" have the ability to kill dozens of people with the blast from a single weapon.  Twenty children and six adults shot multiple times in the span of several ten's of seconds.

Not all the evidence is in for the Newtown massacre - that is exactly what it was, a massacre - but I would be willing to bet the the shooter was under medicated.  either way, the question remains - why is it necessary for anyone but combat personnel to have semi- or fully automatic weapons?

Does the esteemed Dr. Piazza have an answer for that?

In all fairness, let me say that I do not own a gun, would not own a gun.  I see no need for the general population to have guns aside from those who hunt or target shoot.  Evidently, I am in the minority in this country.  That is very frightening.

Fred L. Robson, PhD



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