There are plenty of dangerous antidepressants around. Just read the FDA required black box labels on them. “Increased risk of suicidal thought and behavior” they say. Just like a handgun, a drug can be inherently dangerous. But only after someone pulls the trigger.

     Even the FDA says so…but only after approving them for widespread use just as long as Big Pharma puts that little black box on the label and on the instructions.

     In the gun industry, quality control is achieved either by full inspection of all the parts – generally too expensive – or a statistical analysis of small batches of individual parts – a less costly method and the one more often used. It’s similar to the trial processes new antidepressants undergo to assure efficiency and safety of the products that the FDAapproves for public use.

     Both products – guns and antidepressants — are probably made as safely as they can be. (We might, however, question that safety in another blog addressing Big Pharma’s manipulation of their drug trials). In any case, it’s not the manufactured guns that kill people. It’s the shooters.

     With antidepressants it’s the psychiatrist. He writes the prescription.

     Sometimes it’s also the uninformed or greedy doctor who pulls the trigger when they write someone that dangerous prescription. Dangerous because of that “increased risk of suicidal thought and behavior.”

     Sort of like holding a handgun to someone’s head and pulling the trigger. Or holding it to one’s own head and then deciding to pull the trigger after one too many weeks of taking Adderall.

     Suicide statistics for those who take Adderall show a strong increase in successful suicides.Hence the boldface black warning box on the bottle.

     If we applied those Adderall statistics to someone who bought a handgun, we would see a thirty percent higher risk of them using the gun on themselves or on another…rather than on a Budweiser can balanced on their back fence.

     People are smart enough, though, not to need black box warnings on guns.