Sorry, you're absolutely correct.Is a 28 year old person a kid?
Replace kid with person.
Sorry, you're absolutely correct.Is a 28 year old person a kid?
Anybody know offhand at what age the shooter started transitioning?
Verified? Not that I’m aware of.
Anybody know offhand at what age the shooter started transitioning?
Sorry, you're absolutely correct.
Replace kid withpersonmad dog.
I had kept track of whatever the press reported about these school shooters, mall shooters, etc... and EVERY one of the ones I could research were either taking, or had just gotten off of one form or another of these psychotropic drugs.
That's a hell of a coincidence.... in the aftermath, everyone questioned "I wonder why these shootings are happening, they never have happened before"....
As a technician, when something goes wacky (technical term) that has previously been running normally, the FIRST question is "what has changed?"
So if kids are assumed to be at a semi-standard level of "normal", but then some of them go shoot up a school for no apparent reason.... what has changed?
If you have ONE condition that is common to all of them, don't you think it at LEAST deserves some investigation?
No, not every kid that takes these drugs goes wacky..... but if ALL the kids that HAVE gone wacky were users of these drugs.... you should not just write that off....
but, money talks....
Wonder if there's a game where you can target video game designers.....
I want Peppermint Patty back as spox...as the administration and political party she represents loudly demand that our freedoms be taken away. And I'm willing to bet money she's completely unaware of the hypocrisy and irony of her words. She is the human embodiment of a deer in the headlights.
Let's not circle back to That, please.I want Peppermint Patty back as spox
Meh, I miss Kayleigh McEnany, I think she would make Karine Jean-Pierre cry.I want Peppermint Patty back as spox
Wow, just wow. Keep drilling down, let us know when you reach China. You need to take a long walk backwards and quit letting the trees block your view of the forest. And then you wait until the very end to quote a "GOVERNMENT" study to buttress your argument? Hell, why didn't you also throw in whatever was said on MSNBC last night as corroborating evidence. The facts are this, if local, state, and federal officials would release information as it became available, without manipulation, and if the media would then report this information, without commentary, then this ENTIRE argument goes away and WE, as a society, could get to work at solving the problem in front of us, because we would now KNOW what needs addressing.Coincidences are called coincidences for a reason.
What has changed? What hasn't changed is a much better question. Your coincidental summary is still not causative. There are other correlations as I noted.
However, I took a look at this study on the matter of mass shootings and this was really interesting...
"Mental Health. Mental health variables are not mutually exclusive, and many
perpetrators fell into multiple categories. Among perpetrators in the database, sources indicate
that 19.8% had a history of previous hospitalization for psychiatric reasons, 29.1% had a history
of counseling, and 23.3% had a known history of taking psychiatric medication (comparable to
rates among the U.S. general population; Moore & Mattison, 2017). In terms of diagnosis, 15.7%
showed evidence of a mood disorder diagnosis, 6.4% showed evidence of an autism spectrum
disorder diagnosis, and 26.7% showed evidence of a psychotic disorder diagnosis (compared to
1% of the general population). The data indicate that symptoms of psychosis played no
motivating role in 69% of cases, a small role in 11% of cases, a significant role in 8.7% of cases,
and psychosis played a primary role in another 10.5% of cases. If hospitalization, counseling,
psychiatric medication, and previous diagnosis are combined, 58.7% of perpetrators had a mental
health history, somewhat higher than general population levels (Kessler, Bergulund & Demler,
2005)."
You know something else they found, 97.7% of the mass shooters were male.
This study from 2000-2017 specifically noted that most school shooters were NOT previously treated with psychotropic medications.
The myth of school shooters and psychotropic medications - PubMed
There has been an assertion in certain parts of the media, especially social media, that the majority of individuals who have engaged in a school shooting were prescribed psychotropic medications prior to the event. To determine if there is any validity to this assertion, the authors of this...pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
That will not happen unless you wish to forfeit due process. Due process exists to protect the accused citizen from government’s unparalleled power. That was one of the lessons learned from the Salem witch trials.…The facts are this, if local, state, and federal officials would release information as it became available, without manipulation…
That’s the entire history and business model of the fourth estate. If you don’t like their commentary, source your own original material through court filings, transcripts, and FOIA requests or find an outlet that aligns with what you want to hear.…if the media would then report this information, without commentary, then this ENTIRE argument goes away….
Trying to get society to align on what needs addressing and how to address it is nigh on impossible because what you know needs addressing and what I know needs addressing are very unlikely to be the same thing, much less addressed in the same way.…then this ENTIRE argument goes away and WE, as a society, could get to work at solving the problem in front of us, because we would now KNOW what needs addressing.
Concur. A little stress innoculation goes a long way. This was not a super complex tactical problem, it was a basic combat problem. Identify and engage a hostile target. How is that done? Shoot, move, communicate.…Marine….Phenomenal leadership. SEMPER FIDELIS!
NoDo you trust government to solve…
Do you trust government…
This, from Columbine forward, every one of them.I had kept track of whatever the press reported about these school shooters, mall shooters, etc... and EVERY one of the ones I could research were either taking, or had just gotten off of one form or another of these psychotropic drugs.
That's a hell of a coincidence.... in the aftermath, everyone questioned "I wonder why these shootings are happening, they never have happened before"....
As a technician, when something goes wacky (technical term) that has previously been running normally, the FIRST question is "what has changed?"
So if kids are assumed to be at a semi-standard level of "normal", but then some of them go shoot up a school for no apparent reason.... what has changed?
If you have ONE condition that is common to all of them, don't you think it at LEAST deserves some investigation?
No, not every kid that takes these drugs goes wacky..... but if ALL the kids that HAVE gone wacky were users of these drugs.... you should not just write that off....
but, money talks....