I’ve been over at Free Republic surfing around to get a feel for what everyone is thinking and typically, no one is talking about the FACT that this shooter was a psychiatrist and how that alone may have triggered the rampage.

Cal Thomas said this morning:

By now, the script should be disturbingly familiar. Whether in the Middle East, or increasingly in America, a fanatical Muslim blows up or goes on a shooting spree, killing many. This is quickly followed by “condemnations” from “Muslim civil rights groups,” like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). We are then warned by the president and some newspaper editorials not to jump to conclusions, or to stereotype. Yasser Arafat wrote this script, which he used with great success throughout his bloody career as a terrorist.

My “Knee jerk reaction” to any mass shooting is this:

What Anti-depressant was the shooter taking, how big was the dose, did they recently stop taking the meds?  And/or did they change the prescription or recently add a second medication to the cocktail?

This is a side to the crime that should be fully explored and reported.

I agree that his religion, ideology, and overall worldview contributed to the murders, but we have to have some honest conversation about psychiatric meds and the effect they have on those who take them.