the people around them knew that both killers had toldd other people they planned to t commit a mass shooting and then they did. what can we learn fromys this ? well, the first most obvious answer is that the system in place didn t work. candace owens teacher sent him to a mental hospital for evaluation. they knew he was a threat. they tried their bestea . cr he committed a massacre anyway. so we know for a fact that what we re doing isn t working. but we should also be honest enough to acknowledgeed that its very hard to know what to do. instead, despite what you may have heard, the problem isn t that we don t care enough. there s not a person in this h country who was not horrifiedht by the sight of murdered children. it s the worstre thing. and everybody thinks that them problem is that the human mind is much more complex and hardere to control than we like to admit. a person who is intent on committing violence is very hard to stop under any c circumstances. an act of con
profiting. disgusting. he would say something like that . it s also untrue. it s mindless.s said the the new york times, by the way, said the same thing within hours of the shooting. the gun lobby, please. the nra declared bankruptcy last year. the nra is a husk in twenty twenty one , for example, the tech companies1 spent more than 70 million dollars lobbying congress big pharma$70 spent ninety two million lobbying congress in the first quarter of 2020ng one alone. the nra spent just two point two million total lobbying in all of 2020 a presidential election yearct. spare us whatever the problem is. it s not the gun lobby. they re not the reason those children were murdered yesterday. it s insulting and divisive and stupidnd. this is too serious a moment for nonsense like that . stop. er bute over at msnbc they were completely convinced. watch. and again, as president biden said, i thought he did an extraordinary job last night
last decadee. then during the lockdown s ssri prescriptions increased even more . a pharmacy group called expressd scripts reported that antidepressants prescriptions went up by more than 20% during covid, according the latest figures,n more than 40 million americans are now taking psychoactive a p roughly one in ten . so again, the point of these drugs is to make you healthier mentally to reduce suicide and violence and suicide rates and rates of violence are spikingra now we don t know that that s causation, but it ss worth looking at. ofim course it s immoral to criticize big pharma. could wecr use an honest conversation about this ? yes, immediately. clearly something s going on . what three major medical associations, including the american academy of pediatrics have eric together declared a national state off d emergency in children s mental health caused by covid parents report grief, anxiety and depression c among children, citing school closures