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memBrain Loc: North Carolina (No longer in hiding.)

I respect the author's opinion, however, I do not agree. I do have one question for him though. During his time as a juvenile delinquent, was he ever on any drug for depression or other mood disorders?

The link between school shooters and pharmaceuticals.

Paul

Both of you are right.
Violence is off the charts in schools which are incented to keep reports of violence low.

Out of doors and anything similar is a powerful tool with teens and youth in general but, parents must be invested and typical schools on their own, offer little to that end.

In America today unlike times prior, there is a label for everything and a supposed drug to control it. It's way to common and easy to get your kid labeled and end up with trying to deal with a system oriented to quick fix treatment with drugs. The drug are dangerous, touchy to monitor, and often must be quickly changed when they cease to work and side affects when leaving one to try another is a touchy dangerous period. In a nutshell, responsible or the untoward dangerous explosive behavior we are seeing in these youth. It simply is not working but it is easy as a treatment.

memBrain Loc: North Carolina (No longer in hiding.)

Indeed. However, when you look at all available evidence, there is only one real common denominator. All the people involved in a recent mass shooting (since at least Columbine) is on medication treating some mood disorder. Video games is not. I suspect that the real issue here is people who are disconnected from reality. The video-games didn't make them violent, but it did provide an attractive allure as the individual wasn't connecting with reality anyway.

Paul

I fully agree with you of the issue of the common denominator. It is the core of the problem. It is also going to be by far, the most difficult problem to deal with. We have a system totally oriented to this type of treatment and my personal belief is that the drugs being used are seriously lacking, dangerous and cause as many problems as they are supposed to solve all things considered.

memBrain Loc: North Carolina (No longer in hiding.)

This is true. The drugs people take are often cited for creating the very problem they are designed to prevent.