re: Oliver North Says Ritalin Is Part Of The Gun Violence Problem

that and trench coats seem to be a common denominator

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I know this is kind of chiche but I went to Central Private for most of my schooling and we absolutely had guns on gun racks in trucks in the student parking lot most of the year. It wasn't a big deal and we didn't think that it was odd or worry about anyone using them.

If you had a problem with somebody than you checked their knuckles. Something has changed.

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I can go along with that.

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I think you cannot overestimate how movies and video games have subjected kids to gruesome, unmitigated violence. They teach kids that it's cool to blow dozens of people/creatures away at a time in a most gory way.

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This is just my opinion of course, but I think the movies and video games thing is an excuse.

I can understand how someone with mental illness can see these things and decide to emulate something they see in a movie or on a video game, but it doesn't cause people to do these things.

As a kid I use to watch Rambo, Die Hard, Terminator, Commando.. All the movies people born in the late 70s, early 80s grew up watching.. I played duck hunter, contra, etc on nintendo and not one time did I ever think "I really want to do this stuff. I bet it would be cool to go out and blow up a bunch of people and shoot them". There were a lot of other kids playing and watching those games and movies who didn't go out and do crazy shite just because they saw it on TV.

I honestly think the bigger problem, is that there are more kids today, whose mother was taking drugs (not like marijuana, I am talking about pain pills, heroin, crack, maybe even depression meds) at some point when they were pregnant for them and that had to impact their development.

Let's limit the guns AND the medication? These two things are not mutually exclusive.

Everyone with an agenda will point to the direction they WANT to blame for the problems.

The real answer lies within the home. I have yet to hear of one example of a shooter that had a good father in his home.

Not just a person with XY chromosomes. But a man who loves God, respects others, works hard, shows humility, and serves the people around him.

Shooters don’t shoot because of biology or chemistry or environmental exposures.

Shooters shoot because they were never shown love and how to love others.

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overmedication

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Is quickly trying to pass rampant obesity as America's number one shite arse parent problem

I’ve been saying this for quite a while. I’ve worked in Criminal Justice for 28 years and there is definitely a correlation between adult psychosis and the over use of psychotropic medications on adolescents. It appears to be increasing in recent years as the the generation who has been most prescribed is maturing.

Just my .02 with no studies to support my observations.

The generation that grew up on first person shooters is far less violent than the one that grew up on Howdy Doody

I think there are multiple variables at play that are causing the rise in school shootings, but I do think overmedicating kids so young in life is part of it. A lot of the issues start at home, and when the kids are medicated through most of their growing years it really puts earmuffs over their heads. It really boils down to these kids aren't coping with every day life like they need to be. I graduated HS in '06 and I would say I was on the very edge of kids growing up with values that prepare them for life and I was fortunate because I was mostly raised by my Korean war-generation grandparents.

So many younger kids are being pampered and catered to, with the parents a lot of times also having been pampered to a lesser extent when they were young. You see parents getting rid of winning and losing all together, which are equally important cornerstones to any growing child, and simply awarding everyone.

The end result is a kid experiencing serious cognitive dissonance later in life, in which they can't reconcile with themselves, so they externalize it in the form of a school shooting.

EDIT: wasn't Oliver North the cock who outed Barry Seal back in the 80's?