Response to Senator Menendez's Desire For More Gun Laws

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This is in response to an email (pasted below) from Senator Menendez today:

Dear Senator Menendez,

Thank you for your concern regarding our children.

Do you really want to help protect our children? If so, there's a far more effective way to do this: Get on the FDA's case for approving highly questionable drugs like Fanapt, which the killer was reportedly on when he went on his killing spree. Side effects include aggression, delusion, confusion, hallucinations and paranoia. Can drugs like these lead to murder? Doctors say, "YES, absolutely."

Do you think it's a rare, isolated incident? Think again. Look here for a database of thousands of psychotropic drug-induced violence episodes: [link to ssristories.com]

ALL the major school shootings have one thing in common -- psychotropic drugs, including anti-depressants, anti-psychotics and anti-anxiety medications, which can all make you more psychotic as they cause changes in brain function including lowering 5-HIAA levels (main metabolite of serotonin), which leads to violent behavior.

Natural serotonin boosters like 5-HTP (an amino acid sold in health food stores) will often safely boost serotonin levels higher than SSRI drugs like Paxil, and yet without the devastating effective of causing psychotic splits in individuals who either get off them too fast, are on the wrong dose, experience hyper-serotonin levels, have their 5-HIAA levels drop off, or are just plain incompatible with the drugs due to genetics, drug interactions, or other reasons.

Our society is loaded up with these killer-producing drugs. But, if you're like most politicians (hoping you're not), you'll likely protect the big pharmaceutical company profits long before you take meaningful action to protect our children.

So, do you REALLY want to help, or are you just grandstanding as you push an agenda to disarm the American people and destroy the 2nd Amendment, which is there to PROTECT the people you serve?

If you really care about our children, then please drop any counter-productive rhetoric and grandstanding and actually DO something meaningful besides strip away our rights in favor of offering a completely useless illusion of "security" through gun banning.

Banning guns saying "guns kill people" is like saying "spoons make people fat." It's the person eating improperly who is the cause, not the spoon of course, and unfortunately, in all the major school shootings -- along with many, many other shootings, stabbings, and suicides -- those emotionally-unstable individuals have been on violence-inducing psychotropics, which are the cause of the violence, not the guns.

THAT is the real problem, Senator. Not the guns. This problem can be addressed in a far more effective manner, but you're heading 180 degrees in the wrong direction... unless you have another agenda of course.

The smart ones address the root cause of problems. They don't ignore them and focus on superficial and ineffective "solutions" that will actually do more harm than good.

I know you've very smart. Hopefully you'll do the right thing and bring the debate back to where it belongs -- on dangerous psychotropic drugs and off the destruction of our Constitution.

I look forward to your favorable response.

Sincere regards,

Your Constituent

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"No More Senseless Tragedies"
From: Senator Robert Menendez

Dear Friend,

The senseless, horrific tragedy that took place in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday has shaken us all to our cores. We ask ourselves, why? Today, I spoke on the Senate floor to join with every American in expressing our deep and abiding grief as a nation and our deepest -- most heartfelt -- condolences to the families of the victims.

As the father of two, this strikes painfully close to my heart, painfully close to the heart of every parent. There is no greater sorrow -- no deeper pain -- than the enormous grief that these families are suffering: 20 innocent children, 6 teachers and school employees and their families. No parent should ever have to bear the unspeakable pain of losing a child, especially to this type of tragedy.

Enough is enough.

We must ensure the Newtown tragedy marks a turning point when we are all willing to come together and do what’s right. As we pray for the victims, I believe we must commit ourselves -- as a nation -- to a long-overdue debate about gun violence and how we help those who suffer mental illnesses in our society.

We must finally pass common sense gun laws. No more politics. No more excuses.

Sincerely,

Robert Menendez
United States Senator