The football assistant coach Aaron Feis who was also a security person at the school and died blocking the kids with his body SHOULD HAVE BEEN ARMED.
According to Feis’ Facebook page, he lived in Coral Springs and was a fan of Ronda Rousey and Tim Tebow, the TV show “Duck Dynasty” and the movie “Faith of Our Fathers.” Among his posts were a quote from Billy Graham, “A coach will impact more young people in a year than the average person does in a lifetime,” and tributes to the U.S. military and an advertisement for a “Concealed Carry Jacket” with a handgun poking out of a pocket.
So Coach Feis Could have saved most of the kids…Coach Feis SHOULD HAVE saved all those people.
But Coach Feis WAS NOT ALLOWED TO CARRY HIS LICENSED PISTOL.
“The concept that mental illness is a precursor to violent behavior is nonsense,” said Dr. Louis Kraus”
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My expert opinion is that a person has gotta be pretty effed in the head to shoot a bunch of schoolchildren.
Good points
The Doctor sounds like he is defending the medical profession’s decisions to let mentally ill people roam around.
In the confines of a school hallway a 12 gauge shotgun and a fanny pack filled with shells would be a much more devastating weapon than an AR-15. Not even close.
The gun grabbers don’t care. Gun control would stop those suicides you know, because none of those people who were sick enough they wanted to kill themselves would ever think of poison, jumping off a bridge, or swerving their cars into an overpass.
The media and establishment would rather rally the public to deal with the symptom than to the disease because of their agenda.
Uphill battle ahead.
There was a young man we rented apartment to in the early 80s. His brother was a friend of mine and he asked us to keep a eye on him. Jimmy was sometimes very outgoing and cheerful and sometimes he would not come out of the apartment except to go to work.
His parents had split up when he was young, but he was the youngest and they’d had all they could stand.
All Jimmy’s brothers were working on becoming successful, in their own way. Jimmy, stuck in the past, used to call me and my live in long term girl “mom and dad”. I being young and green didn’t see the pattern, but did report the weeks Jimmy was isolating himself to my friend. Jimmy moved in with his brother after a week or two at the asylum, which was what the doctor ordered. Meanwhile my girl and I decided to tie the knot. I went to my friends house on a Friday night for a impromptu bachelor party, nothing to it. We smoked and drank a few beers watching a movie. Jimmy went outside, then came back in and said “hey guys, come out here and look at the stars with me for a minute” We replied we would be out in a minute, we’re almost through with Ghostbusters. “Ok” he said, smiling and shut the door. In about 3 minutes we heard a loud noise, as if a spacerock struck the top of the trailer. John stood up and cried out his brother’s name and ran out side. I followed. The worst sight I’ve ever seen and may God spare me any worse.
This story posted brought this back hard, but your ideas ring true to me. I was told the meds were helping Jimmy, who was a nice young man but just never took off and flew. I’ll be saying a few more prayers for Jimmy’s soul
1) Stop overprescribing drugs
2) Arm security personnel in schools
3) Get parents to be parents and not have government schools be parents
This guy belongs in a rubber room!
If we conflate urban gang violence with rampage killings, and conflate homicides with suicides, I guess. But young Black gangsters fighting over drug territory or old White men with chronic pain or cancer who shoot themselves aren't the problem here.
The problem is bat**** crazies who murder innocents. The Black gangsters and old White guys have sane and rational reasons to do what they do, the school shooters don't.
Chicago's total is up to 309 shootings and 70 homicides for 2018. Does the doctor even care?
Recipe for school shootings:
Take a low status male with high levels of testosterone.
Add a does of mental instability.
Sprinkle him up with an SSRI
Stand back and watch madness unfold.
The "smoking gun" is not the gun.
Was the shooter obsessed with violent video games, television shows, or movies? Leftists in Hollywood and video game companies continue to pump out gratuitous violence called “entertainment”. Does the absorption of thousands of hours of graphic violence desensitize some people to violence and anti social behavior?
I tell my leftist friends I’ll start being concerned about gun control when the Hollywood elites start talking about banning violence from movies and games.
(It’s actually a bit of a trick to kill yourself with a rifle or shotgun. It’s not impossible by any means, but it’s a hell of a lot harder to shoot yourself in the head with a rifle that it is with a pistol.)
Ask Ernest Hemingway about use of a shotgun ...
These Florida kids being led by the nose by their commie handlers seem to miss the link that their friends were killed by one of their own fellow students. Not some unknown psycho that walked in off the street, but one they had classes with, joked with, had lunch in the cafeteris just before he was expelled.
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Few studies have sustained as much criticism as Study 329, a placebo controlled, randomized trial of paroxetine and imipramine carried out by SmithKline Beecham (which became GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in 2000). In 2002, a US Food and Drug Administration officer who formally reviewed the trial reported that “on balance, this trial should be considered as a failed trial, in that neither active treatment group showed superiority over placebo by a statistically significant margin.”4 Yet this same year, according to the New York State Attorney General’s office, which sued GSK, over two million prescriptions were written for children and adolescents in the United States, all off-label, after a marketing campaign that characterized Study 329 as demonstrating “REMARKABLE Efficacy and Safety.”
Got a reading comprehension problem folks?
The drugs don’t work in teens and children; neither showed that it was superior to a sugar pill in terms of being effective. Worse, they massively increased the risk of suicidal ideation - by anywhere from 2.5 to more than five times depending on the specific drug in question. Finally, the government (FDA) knew all of this in 2002.
Why would you allow a doctor (of any sort) to prescribe a drug to someone that we know, scientifically, does not work in that person’s age group?
But what we also know is not just that they don’t work and raise the risk of self-harm — they also potentiate violent criminal behavior in a small percentage of children, adolescents and those under the age of 25 who take them.
In fact these drugs as a class basically double the risk of violent criminal conviction in that age group.
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Yet, I just had a few on FR kneeling-n-head-bobbing for the FDA as the ‘great savior’ of human life\health.
If it wasn’t ‘approved’ it’d never be on the market. So, while you’re dying, grasping at straws, tough-luck. But, they’ll OK these kind of mind-altering drugs\placebos.
Follow the $$, as the saying goes. If only We were Free Men, in charge of our own bodies/destinies/outcomes.