Where is the evidence?
“Since the 1999 school shooting in Columbine, CO, it appears that a typecast of the shooters has emerged: teen boys who are depressed, isolated, medicated, jilted, have absentee or divorced parents, and play violent video games.”
All the shooters have been male, and they may have all been socially isolated and depressed, but we know that they have all been medicated or play violent video games at a higher rate than their gender age groups?
Where is the evidence?
Good question “Where is the evidence?”
The last couple of shootings I did not read anything about the medication until after the press got done with their anti-gun rant.
We need documented research into this. This is a mental heath issue, maybe the CDC or someone needs to start a research project. Guns have always been around, this issue is new just in the last 15 years.
I suspect most of the shooters where medicated for a long period of time. After a period of the time the meds don’t have the same effect, the child never learn to cope with their so call disability, so they start killing class mates.
More Research!!!!!!!
Where is the evidence?
Do not mistake absence of evidence for evidence of absence.
Virtually all these mass murderers (STOP CALLING THEM SHOOTERS!!!) either were known mental defectives, were taking psychoactive drugs, came from a dysfunctional and/or single parent home, or some combination of the three.
"According to our research, at least 59% of the 185 public mass shootings that took place in the United States from 1900 through 2017 were carried out by people who had either been diagnosed with a mental disorder or demonstrated signs of serious mental illness prior to the attack...."
www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-duwe-rocque-mass-shootings-mental-illness-20180223-story.html
"...[W]e need to find better ways to address the stunning commonality in all these mass shootings, which is that the men who perpetrate them are sick -- Las Vegas, Pulse nightclub, Newtown, Columbine, Charleston, Virginia Tech, Tucson, Aurora -- on and on, these killers were mentally ill and in almost every case, someone knew it...."
edition.cnn.com/2018/02/16/opinions/democrats-spare-me-your-hypocrisy-on-shooting-cupp/index.html
"From Prozac to Parkland: Are Psychiatric Drugs Causing Mass Shootings?"
www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/28307-from-prozac-to-parkland-are-psychiatric-drugs-causing-mass-shootings
"...Psychologist Peter Langman collected data showing that the vast majority of shooters come from households characterized by divorce and separation, abuse and neglect, alcoholism, and drug addiction.
"Out of this sample of 56 school shooters, only 10 (18%) grew up in a stable home with both biological parents," Langman wrote in an article titled "School Shooters: The Myth of a Stable Home."
"In other words," he continued, "82% of the sample either grew up in dysfunctional families or without their parents together (for at least part of their lives)...."
www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/march/mass-shooters-absent-fathers-the-link-most-anti-gun-activist-ignore
Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill : A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence, by LtCol Dave Grossman
ISBN-10: 0609606131, ISBN-13: 978-0609606131