Could Narcotics Have Contributed to Dylann Roof’s Charleston Church Massacre?

 

In the wake of the Charleston Church Massacre officials all over the nation are weighing in on the crazed shooter, Dylann Roof. A reader of our blog sent us a lead to an interesting angle we haven’t considered about Roof before. Adrian Wyllie speculates pharmaceuticals may have played a hand in the slaughter of Charleston Church. If you recall, Wyllie was the third party (libertarian) candidate for Florida’s governor in the recent election won by Rick Scott. Wyllie muses on his Facebook page openly about Dylann Roof,

“Those emotionless, vacant eyes have become the calling card of all recent mass murderers. I’m just speculating, but I’ll wager that he was prescribed anti-depressant and/or anti-anxiety medication. Maybe it’s time we stop blaming the tools with which they kill, and begin to investigate the personality-altering pharmaceuticals coursing through their brains.”

 

The latter part of Wyllie’s comment is most likely aimed at President Obama’s recent condemnation of gun availability. Fox News quotes president Obama,

“Once again, innocent people were killed because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun.”

Now that we’ve gotten all the big-wig quotes out of the way, check out what we found after a bit of digging into Dylann Roof’s past:

While we haven’t been able to pin down evidence of Roof being prescribed anti-anxiety or anti-depressants, Roof was arrested earlier this year in February for possession of suboxone, according to WND. Suboxone is a narcotic (opiate) drug used to help those recovering from heroin and opiate prescription medications achieve sobriety. Unfortunately, since the medication is an opiate itself, it’s becoming the target of abuse.

So far there’s no information as to whether or not Dylann Roof was under the influence of mind altering medications during the shooting, but perhaps his past drug use is a window into the reasons why. There are no words we could offer to assuage the countless lives the Charleston Church massacre has completely razed to the ground, but it begs to question what the effects of pharmaceuticals are having on those who are meant to achieve normalcy by taking them.

WND reports out of 62 mass shootings, 41 possibly suffered from mental illness, and were perhaps prescribed psychotropic medications to treat those illnesses. Are we doing more harm than good?

Wyllie’s speculations may be on target, according to a separate article published by WND who quotes a schoolmate of Roof’s, John Mullins, “[Dylann Roof] used drugs heavily. . .it was obviously harder than marijuana. He was like a pill popper, from what I understood. Like Xanax, and stuff like that.”

 

What’s your take on the Charleston Church Massacre? Do you think the presence of mind altering drugs is just an excuse?

 

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