guns & drugs

Interesting one for you, I've been on Adipex(sp?) to help me lose weight since November, gotta get off it for at least 6mos now, and one of the side effects is a "fight or flight" response to stressful situations...I haven't had any problem out of this, until tonight when I got pretty confrotational with my future sis-in-law's current boyfriend about his attitude, it got heated for a minute till I had sense enough to just walk out, and he drove off a few minutes later...of course I was the bad guy and blah blah blah.

Normally I don't get confrontational about anything, but this medicine certainly puts me on edge, but not too extreme. That's just an example of how meds can alter your thinking. I was armed during that argument(not sure if he knew it or not), so if things had escalated who knows how that would've turned out in court.

But in a situation on the street if someone were to do something that set off a response from me and I used deadly force, and it might've not been completely necessary, I would think that a judge, and a good defense attorney would try to turn it into temporary insanity, because even people not acting under the influence of meds who have a fight or flight reaction often have little to no control of their actions, and I'd think that would go for MOST drugs/alcohol related situations