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Nearly Every Mass Shooting Has This One Thing In Common, And It Isn’t Weapons. Whenever gun crimes are perpetrated, liberals love to point the finger of blame at law-abiding gun owners, but a list of mass shooters from the past 20 years proves that they all had one thing in common – and it wasn’t the weapons used.

Nearly Every Mass Shooting Has This One Thing In Common, And It Isn’t Weapons

Evidence shows that the common factor in nearly every mass shooting is that all of the perpetrators were either actively taking powerful psychotropic drugs or had been taking them at one point before committing their crimes. Multiple credible scientific studies going back more then a decade, as well as internal documents from certain pharmaceutical companies that suppressed the information show that SSRI drugs ( Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors ) have well known, but unreported side effects, including but not limited to suicide and other violent behavior. The extensive list shows how psychotropic drugs are linked in every case of murder and suicide: Missing from list… 3 of 4 known to have taken these same meds…. Rookie Cop Fatally Shoots Gun-Wielding 14-Year-Old — Previously Charged with Attempted Murder — During Possible Gang Battle. Rookie New York City police shot and killed an armed teen in the South Bronx early Sunday after the suspect was seen chasing and shooting at another male and refused to drop his weapon, the New York Post reports.

Rookie Cop Fatally Shoots Gun-Wielding 14-Year-Old — Previously Charged with Attempted Murder — During Possible Gang Battle

The suspect, 14-year-old Shaaliver Douse, had already been charged with attempted murder in a different incident, but that charge was dropped in May. (Credit: WABC-TV) A pair of rookie cops—26 and 27 years of age—heard shots around 3 a.m. and ran to investigate, police said. They observed Douse, of the South Bronx, chasing and firing at another person. The two uniformed cops—assigned to the high-crime area on an Impact team only months after graduating from the police academy—ordered Douse to drop his gun and also indentified themselves as police officers, the Post reports. After Douse refused, one of the officers fired a single round that hit the teen in the jaw, police said. Waffle House Armed Robber Gets the Surprise of a Lifetime When Customer Decides to Fight Back With a Gun. An Atlanta crook picked the wrong Waffle House to target early Monday morning.

Waffle House Armed Robber Gets the Surprise of a Lifetime When Customer Decides to Fight Back With a Gun

That’s because when the bandana and hoodie-wearing bandit walked into the restaurant and pointed a gun at patrons, one of them reached for his gun and fired back. Police say the suspect entered the Waffle House in south Fulton County just before 2 am, brandishing a pistol and demanding money. “Nobody move and open the cash register,” the suspect, 20-year-old Ashton Macafee, allegedly said according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC). What he didn’t know was that seated together at a booth were off-duty Atlanta police officer Jonathan Sutton and his friend, off-duty security guard Evans Chad Pollard. Officer Sutton (L) and Pollard, friends who thwarted a Waffle House armed robbery by opening fire on the suspect.

According to the AJC, Sutton was not able to reach for his weapon. “I felt that not only my life, but everyone’s life was in danger, so I had to do what I had to do,” Pollard told the paper. Federal Judge Now Throws Up Roadblock for Those In Illinois Looking to Immediately Carry Concealed Weapons. FILE – In this Feb. 19, 2013 file photo, Valinda Rowe, spokesperson for Illinois Carry, holds a photograph of Mary Shepard, a Union County, Ill., woman who was beaten in 2009 by a paroled felon in an Anna church along with another woman, during a committee hearing on concealed carry at the State Capitol in Springfield, Ill.

Federal Judge Now Throws Up Roadblock for Those In Illinois Looking to Immediately Carry Concealed Weapons

Shepard and attorneys for the state on Thursday, July 18, 2013, at federal court in East St. Louis, Ill., filed motions differing on Shepard’s request that Illinoisans be allowed to immediately carry concealed weapons in public under a new law. Credit: AP ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a push by gun rights advocates to let Illinois residents immediately tote firearms in public instead of waiting months for the state to outline the permitting process under its new concealed carry law.

U.S. Under the last-in-the-nation concealed carry law, passed by the General Assembly July 9 against Gov. S.C. Supreme Court Abruptly Halts Murder Trial to Hear Arguments on ‘Stand Your Ground’ — After an Armed Intruder Uses It to Justify Killing a Homeowner. The South Carolina Supreme Court had made the unusual move of halting a murder trial to hold a hearing on the state’s so-called “stand your ground” law — but it’s who’s claiming the defense that’s likely to turn heads: an armed intruder who shot and killed the man whose home he broke into.

S.C. Supreme Court Abruptly Halts Murder Trial to Hear Arguments on ‘Stand Your Ground’ — After an Armed Intruder Uses It to Justify Killing a Homeowner

South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal (AP) Gregg Isaac testified in court this week that he entered the apartment of Antonio Corbitt in 2005 with another man, Tavares World, after World kicked in the door, The State newspaper reported. Isaac testified that as World and Corbitt fought, it looked like Corbitt was going to pull a gun and shoot Isaac, so instead, Isaac shot Corbitt twice. Corbitt stumbled outside and died.