Virginia Tech School Shooter

 April 25, 2007
For those who doubt this nation needs to have a serious discussion on this topic, here is a list of other shootings where psychiatric drugs were a common factor (follow link)
http://www.essentialestrogen.com/2007/04/we_owe_it_to_our_kids_to_dig_d.html

April 23, 2007

Michael Moore, School Shooters and Are Drugs to blame for Cho’s rampage? Follow link.
http://psychdata.blogspot.com/2007/04/michael-moore-school-shooters-and-are.html

What was he on?
 
The Daily News of Los Angeles
April 23, 2007

Eric Harris of the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado had been taking Luvox. Kip Kinkel of the Springfield, Ore., shooting was on Ritalin and Prozac. Jason Hoffman of the 2001 high-school shooting in El Cajon was on two antidepressants, Effexor and Celexa. Jeff Weise [...]

Virginia Tech shootings 
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
 April 23, 2007
Gun-toting police even pose dangers.
After serving the public as a Marine in Vietnam, bomb technician and law enforcement officer, I still have difficulty understanding the American public’s fascination with firearms.
With the horrible shootings at Virginia Tech and the equally horrible police shootings of two unarmed young men in College [...]

Columbine Shooting Victim

Mental illness dark ages 
Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine)
 April 20, 2007
 
I am writing in response to recent articles about James Michael Peters.
I encourage people to check out recent research and facts on violence and psychiatric drugs, offered by the Citizen Commission on Human Rights. According to that commission, there is mounting evidence that psychiatric drugs can cause [...]

Reader comments on School Shootings 
Ventura County Star (California)
 April 19, 2007

Not media’s fault
Re: Sheriff Bob Brooks’ April 18 commentary, “What parents can do to prevent school violence”:
Sheriff Brooks’ commentary was well-meaning. However, if there was a correlation between children watching TV, playing video games, seeing violent movies or using the Internet, and mass murder, then in [...]

Too early to draw Virginia Tech conclusions 
April 18, 2007
Springfield News-Leader, on Virginia Tech:
There are no easy answers.
That’s the painful truth as the nation reels from yet another unfathomable school shooting.
This time, a college student at Virginia Tech pulled out two handguns and mowed down 30 people before turning one of the guns on himself. Before [...]