Quote from: Lethn on August 14, 2014, 12:34:37 PM

This is something I've noticed doctors have been trying to point out, something pushed these guys over the edge and the mixture of being hopped up on drugs and not being treated right would do that to anyone nevermind people who have mental problems to begin with. Good luck ever getting anyone in America to admit that though, they conveniently ignore the fact that Canada and Switzerland have just about as many guns as the Americans do but you very rarely if at all hear about people going on a rampage with them.

In fact, minus the compulsory national service, I think that the Swiss way is the way to go, if you want to go and buy a gun or have a rifle, you've got to do some kind of proper training first, these 'accidents' I've seen people list as a blame against firearms are caused by people doing things I would never do with a firearm and I don't even own one or know how to take it apart properly!

I wonder what percentage of their population are subscribed psych drugs, compared to America.

I agree with you on training, to get a hunting license here in the US you have to take a hunters safety course, with that comes proper gun handling. The teachers state in that course that most hunting accidents are due to people that have never taken the course, though they may be promoting their classes. But have a point that proper gun handling can really cut down on accidents.

Quote from: Spendulus on August 14, 2014, 12:21:09 PM

Sooner or later there will be a major lawsuit against these pharmaceutical companies for not coming clean about the possible effects of using their products.

I think that did happen with some statin drugs. Not soo much psych drugs...

Quote from: bitsmichel on August 14, 2014, 12:18:54 PM

Anything the government cannot control is a problem for them. I tend to agree, it's a cultural problem - our culture is a big promoter of violence we find it everywhere tv, movies, games, music etc - but always in a positive sense. The gun violence also happens in the government (police) level, so we cannot simply separate them and say "the people owning guns are the problem".

isnt it ironic that the people that are suppose to protect and serve, are the ones with unregulated violence in many cases.