{"id":6651,"date":"2013-10-02T02:33:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T09:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=6651"},"modified":"2013-10-02T02:47:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T09:47:11","slug":"front-sights-blog-congress-finally-listening-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2013\/10\/02\/front-sights-blog-congress-finally-listening-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight’s Blog: Congress finally listening to us…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After Columbine, I was the first in the gun industry to align my sights on the right target and aggressively send my message through the Internet to our political leaders, telling them it was psych drugs, not guns that were responsible for the carnage. <\/p>\n

With every shooting that followed, I aggressively made my point that the shooters were on psych drugs. Still, I was the lone wolf of the gun industry howling in the night. <\/p>\n

When Obama tried to use Sandy Hook to ban all of our guns, I put my campaign to expose the REAL reason for all the mass shootings into overdrive and much to my appreciation, you all jumped in by forwarding my message. I began to see more and more people in America focusing on the right target as well. <\/p>\n

And now I see that FINALLY, Congress is listening to us.<\/p>\n

Check this out…<\/p>\n

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Congressional Inquiry Into Psych Drugs and Violence <\/h2>\n

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By Kelly Patricia O’Meara
\n September 30, 2013<\/p>\n

Did psychiatric drugs cause the violent behavior of Washington Navy Yard shooter, Aaron Alexis? One Member of Congress has hinted at the connection and has stepped up to the plate to make an official inquiry into the gunman’s psychiatric drug background.<\/p>\n

U.S. Representative Miller (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, apparently is savvy enough on the issue to tell a local Washington, D.C. radio station that “One of the medications that Alexis received does have a side effect that could in fact have been a problem.” Chairman Miller has directed the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to save all records relating to Alexis for review.<\/p>\n

While it is extraordinary news that a federal lawmaker finally, at a minimum, is willing to consider that there may be a connection between the shooter’s violent behavior and psychiatric drug “treatment,” what is not known is whether Chairman Miller will stop at Alexis or look at the bigger picture.<\/p>\n

The overwhelming data supporting a connection between psychiatric drugs and violence, screams for a thorough investigation. That Alexis (like so many of the shooters before him) had been prescribed a psychiatric mind-altering drug, and was taking, Trazodone, an antidepressant with known severe adverse reactions associated with violence, may only be the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n

While it is imperative to know Alexis’ complete psychiatric drug history, Chairman Miller must also consider the numerous other shooting incidents which reveal the commonality – all were on or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs. The research has been available for years.<\/p>\n