New NRA Pres: Ritalin Causes School Shootings

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Communist News Network fails once again at even a semblance of journalism with sensationalist BS headlines that have almost no relevance to the actual comments of their target, and I'm not a huge Oliver North fan.

Here are the actual comments:

“They've been drugged in many cases. Nearly all of these perpetrators are male, and they're young teenagers in most cases, and they've come through a culture where violence is commonplace," said North. "Many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten. Now, I am certainly not a doctor, I'm a Marine, but I can see those kinds of things happening."

North added: "The problem that we've got is, we're trying like the dickens to treat the symptom without treating the disease, and the disease in this case isn't the Second Amendment; the disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence."

I don't agree with both of his conclusions, that a culture of violence among youngsters is the underlying cause. I do agree that the right to keep and bear arms isn't the disease.

So far, the least common denominator I'm seeing with school shootings is perpetrators who felt victimized or were victimized at the schools, with no real sense of justice enforced by adults at the schools. It's a simple matter of payback once they've felt ostracized from their peer groups at such an early age, especially when other students feed into the bullying and laugh at them while they're being humiliated.

The next common denominator is psychotropic medication either on current doses, or during withdrawal from prescribed dosing: Adam Lanza, Columbine-Harris/Luvox, Klebold/records sealed, Mamoru Takuma, Jon Romano, Jeff Weise, William Barrett Foster, Alvaro Rafael Castillo, Travis Roberson, John Odgren, Asa Coon, Felicia McMillan, Pekka-Eric Auvinen, Steven Kazmierczak, Jesus “Jesse” Carrizales, Matti Saari, Hammad Memon , Christian Helms (ADHD/depression meds/pipe bombs), Sean Johnson, Jose Reyes, Chris Plaskon, Aaron Ybarra, Myron May, Kendrex J. White, Laurie Wasserman Dann, Calvin Charles Bell, Stephen Leith, Toby R. Sincino, Kip Kinkel, and Shawn Cooper.

9 of those incidents were pretty brutal stabbings. 4 involved shotguns. 24 involved shootings.

100% of them involved prescription psychotropic medication. Several were females and are not limited to the US. Source: https://www.cchrint.org/school-shooters/

The Columbine kids (Klebold and Harris) were bullied badly at CHS, to the extent that ketchup-covered tampons and ketchup packets were thrown and squirted all over them in the commons area in front of all the students present.

Looks like this latest kid in Texas was bullied as well and sought revenge.

Lanza's psychiatrist faced child sexual abuse allegations, so he shredded all his files, closed his practice, and fled to New Zealand. I didn't know that until I was doing some research recently on causal factors to these incidents. We still don't know what all Lanza went through, but for whatever reason, he wanted to lash out at that school after his mom pulled him off his psych meds when his arm stopped working.

The obvious and glaring causal factors of these mass shootings, especially at schools, seem to be:

* Revenge/retribution/targeting of easy mass casualty areas
* Psyche meds

Firearms are not the common denominator because many of the incidents involve stabbings, some bombs, at least one baseball bat to a school resource officer's head, and swords.

Therefor, it only makes sense to ban AR15s.

It helps if you were trained not to think critically, have zero observational powers or logical thought, and copy off of other people's test papers after not studying.

Since the companies that manufacture these narcotics are some of the biggest sponsors of CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, guns get blamed, or people shedding light on one of the causal factors then have their comments packaged and are personally attacked, rather than accepting the real issues.