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Showing posts with label school shootings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school shootings. Show all posts
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TURNS OUT 1 BILLIONAIRE IS WORTH MORE THAN 52 REGULAR PEOPLE PER THE AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM 19DEZ2024
I am against the death penalty, always have been, but I had to post this just to remind people how the rich and powerful actually see us regular people.....
13 June 2022
MOTHER JONES DAILY ; Will the January 6 hearings change anything?, Feds Expand Investigation Into Funding for Trump’s Media Empire, Here's what to really look for with the Senate deal on guns, Here's one boat parade Donald Trump is going to hate, I can't stop thinking about the Thin Blue Line flags in the January 6 video, An Uvalde mom reports that her grieving fourth grader nearly suffered cardiac arrest, Denver deployed mental health workers instead of police—and some crimes went down 13JUN22
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06 June 2022
EVERYTOWN USA 3JUN22
SEND THE TEXT, I DID, or are you a gun violence accomplice? Keep reminding your elected officials they need to do their job. We will never end gun violence in America but we can make sure we are doing everything possible to prevent it.
Today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day and the start of Wear Orange Weekend. It's time to #WearOrange and demand action.
With gun violence devastating our communities, we're going to show we won't stop working to end this crisis. We should not have to live in fear that gunfire can ring out at any moment, whether it's at an elementary school in Uvalde, a supermarket in Buffalo, a front porch in Philadelphia, a medical office in Tulsa, or graduations across the country. We deserve more.
22 May 2018
No links between Ritalin and school shootings, as NRA's Oliver North claimed & Bobcat Goldthwait - Meat Bob (Side A) 22MAI18 & SOMETIME BACK IN 1988....
SOME things never change, like the famous American fascist oliver north's inability to tell the truth. He lied about Iran Contra, he lied about his role in the illegal American invasion of Grenada, and he is lying about those who have carried out mass shootings, mass murders in America. Anybody with a brain knows his first major lie as pres of the nra (a job he is uber qualified for because honesty is not one of the job requirements) is ludicrous, it is almost laughable until you realize the reason for his lie, to deceive and manipulate the voluntarily ignorant. From PolitiFact, followed by Bobcat Goldthwait's comments on ollie north and Iran Contra from 1988, give that a listen starting at the 9:07 mark to the 11:30 mark. I remember hearing this on WHFS and it still make me laugh out loud!
No links between Ritalin and school shootings, as NRA's Oliver North claimed
By Manuela Tobias
The National Rifle Association’s new president, Oliver North, deflected attention off guns and onto medication in the wake of the latest school shooting.
"The problem that we got is we are trying like the dickens to treat the symptom without treating the disease," North said. "The disease in this case isn't the Second Amendment. The disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence.
"They have been drugged in many cases. Nearly all of these perpetrators are male and they are young teenagers in most cases. And they have come through a culture where violence is commonplace. All you need to do is turn on the TV, go to a movie," North continued. "If you look at what has happened to the young people, many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten."
Pundits have long harped on the dangers of violence in movies, television shows and video games. But we were curious about the link North suggests between Ritalin, prescribed for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and gun violence.
The overprescription of ADHD medication has been the subject of heavy debate. For the record, we found no evidence that the suspected Texas shooter was diagnosed with ADHD, or prescribed Ritalin. More broadly and to North’s point, we found no evidence to back up the idea that ADHD medication was behind school shootings or that "many" shooters had been on Ritalin.
"The short answer is that this is nonsense," said Katherine S. Newman, Torrey Little professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts and author of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings.
For Rampage, Newman and her fellow researchers studied medication as a precipitating factor in the school shootings that took place between 1970 and 2000. They found no evidence drugs played a role.
"The vast majority of shooters were, sadly, not under any kind of medical supervision," Newman said. "Indeed, the shocking finding is that despite evidence of serious mental disorders (after the fact at least), these young men had — in the main — not been seen by physicians for any kind of psychological disorder and were hence not under medication at all."
Peter Langman, a psychologist in private practice who has been studying school shootings for over a decade, said he has not found any ties between psychiatric medication and rampage attacks, either. Langman looked at 48 school shooters between 1966 and 2012 in his 2015 book School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators.
Langman found that two of the 24 secondary school shooters he profiled were taking medication at the time of their attacks. A third shooter might have been, or he may have stopped his medication three weeks before the attack. Including that case, 12.5 percent of the shooters Langman studied were taking medication.
The 12.5 percent statistic held true for the 48 shooters Langman studied, too, which also included adults and college students.
Andrew Arulanandam, a spokesman for the NRA, sent along various stories about the overprescription of Ritalin. Only one was a scientific study mentioning both ADHD medication and violence.
The study found that three ADHD drugs were responsible for 108 of 1,937 case reports of violence toward others in a 69-month period FDA database.
But Russell Barkley, a clinical professor of psychiatry who monitors ADHD research weekly at the Virginia Treatment Center for Children, explained that the study does not control for the high probability that patients receiving treatment with these drugs were already highly aggressive to begin with.
"We have no research in our scientific literature of more than 50,000 articles showing that Ritalin increases aggression on average," Barkley said. "Research in fact shows that stimulants like Ritalin reduce aggressive behavior in those with ADHD."
There is also no evidence that any of those reports of violence were related to school shootings.
"We don’t know that any of those people in the study had anything to do with a mass rampage attack," Langman said. "Even if the drug gets people to get agitated or angry, there’s a difference between that and plotting and carrying out a mass murder."
Our ruling
North said, "They have been drugged in many cases … many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten."
A minor percentage of school shooters studied had been medicated, not "many." The notion that many have specifically been on the drug Ritalin since kindergarten has no factual basis. More broadly, causation has never been established between the medication and violence. We found no specific ties between ADHD medication and school shootings, either.
We rate this statement False.
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