New NRA Pres: Ritalin Causes School Shootings

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Ollie North's assertions are nonsense unless you read "kids are overprescribed medication these days" from his comments (that's iffy, IMHO).

His comment about overprescribed meds is not only iffy, it does not validate the accuracy of his statement that "many" of the kids who shot up schools had been on Ritalin for most of their lives, nor is it evidence that Ritalin has any cause/effect relationship in school shootings done by the few kids who had used it.

However, drawing any global conclusions solely from your own experiences is equally nonsense.

Nor would I do so. What my own experience shows is that not being taught how to deal with rejection, bullying, or failure isn't something new and unique to the current generation of kids, and thereby casts doubt on montana's premise.