Not To Be Cruel

I think after yet another deranged transgender specimen succumbed to homicidal and then ultimately suicidal impulses, we can conclude that there exists a significant level of mental illness in this subset of the unhinged. We are about to descend into the cacophony of gun control proposals from the democrats, everything from assault weapon bans, handgun bans, to magazine bans. This particular offender gave them the entire menu, bringing a rifle, a pistol, and a shotgun to the massacre. If only he had brought a BB gun and a slingshot, the progressives could have left us defending ourselves with rocks. But once again, the manifesto left by this boy turned girl, then regretfully wanting to be a boy again, paints a picture of serious mental illness. And yet not one of his umpteen siblings nor his parents, let alone the myriad of so-called healthcare professionals and psychologists required to wade through the transitioning process, had an inkling?  Aside from the family members likely in denial, the medical community had been an enormous disappointment in exposing their liberal leaning undergarments by embracing the nonsense that has been disingenuously labeled “gender affirming care.”  If you were actually to affirm the gender of these folks, you may want to use the blueprint of DNA as the guidelines. Sorry Robin, but your DNA and the original equipment in your trousers tend to suggest that you’re male.. Wear a dress, speak in falsetto, and by all means, when you’re of age, feel free to find some morally corrupt physician willing to cut off healthy body parts… but you’re still a . phenotype, genotype…..lipstick on a pig. And the European literature, folks who have been doing this a lot longer than we have, is there to back it up. “Gender affirming care” does not, in fact, reduce the prevalence of mental illness and suicide in this population. It is not “life-saving care,” so just knock it off, lefties. But it is most likely that this perpetrator and his peers were suffering from depression, anxiety, or some mental illness that required medication. The antidepressant class of meds, usually SSRIs, are associated with suicidal and violent delusions, so much so that it is actually included on their warning labels. So the medical community, which has embraced this therapy, is actually prescribing medications likely to induce violent tendencies in a class of patients who already have a mental illness?  Genius. So, rather than banning guns for the entire population, how about we flag the records of people taking medications that may cause them to engage in violence?  “Oh, but HIPAA and patient confidentiality,” screams the left, the same people who continually attempt to make public the records of law-abiding gun owners. And with an estimated 10% of the population taking medication for depression, that’s a large segment of the public. So what. If the left wants to ban firearms, here’s your chance to eliminate 10%. Radical?  Maybe. Will the NRA holler? Probably. Will patients refuse to be prescribed SSRIs? Maybe that will spur the medical community to seek less deleterious alternatives. And besides, what percentage of the depressed population owns firearms?  More research is needed into this option rather than the simplistic “solution” of banning all 400 million firearms currently in the hands of the citizenry. Especially when those seeking to make policy are like the grandstanding mayor of Minneapolis, who opined that “clips” in conjunction with magazines and guns that can “pierce armor” are not your father’s hunting rifles and should be banned. Before speaking in public, it would be best not to sound like an ill-informed idiot. But I digress. Medical community:  it is time to step up and review the science and statistics and make decisions based on medicine, not politics. Depression and anxiety have become all too common in this age of social media in America. It’s time we treated the disease and not the symptoms. Keeping firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill, especially those taking medications with documented side effects of delusional thoughts of suicide and violence, might be a good place to start.