Guns take the blame but what about antidepressant drugs?

[resodko]

:think: For the record, Chief Brody (portrayed by the great Roy Scheider) is indeed using a "Military Grade Firearm" to shoot the bad shark.

for the record - he wasn't shooting at the shark - he was shooting at the scuba tank

 

[oatmeal]

Several issues and solutions come to mind.

First, watching drug company commercials, the side effects of many drugs makes the risk of using the drug close to unjustifiable.

Taking an anti depressant that has suicidal tendencies as a possible side effect seems drastic and very risky.

But more to the point, what are the solutions to the mental illnesses we read more and more about?

Truth, believing it, living it.

Let's start with listing some of the instructions and benefits to our mental health that God writes about.

John 14:27

John 16:33

Acts 2:46-47

Deuteronomy 30:19

Psalms 1:1-3

Jeremiah 17:7-8

Psalms 23

Psalm 37

Psalm 40

Psalm 119:28

Isaiah 26:3

Romans 6:4

John 8:31-32

Romans 8:1,16-18,31,37-39

I Corinthians 2:9,12

II Corinthians 2:14

Colossians 3:15

II Timothy 1:7

Philippians 4:6-9

Medical help when it actually helps is great, but no where close to God's truth living in a person's mind and heart and life.

All we have to do is think those things God wants us to think and stay focused on them

 

[oatmeal]

frightening as that lost is still a very small proportion of the Americans killed with handguns every year.

If you sort out that information with the places where those gun related murders and deaths occur most frequently, it is in those places that the anti self defense laws are strictest.

Where legal guns abound, deaths by gun is almost zero.

 

[resodko]

Some people like to ponder things.... other folks (like you) are dense.

do you ever ponder why granite's so dense?

he shoulda named himself "depleted uranium"