Lawyers: Families of Virginia Tech Victims to Get $11M Settlement
 

Associated Press
Thursday, April 10, 2008
 
ROANOKE, Va.   Families of the victims in the Virginia Tech shootings have reached an $11 million settlement with the state, lawyers said Thursday. The deal is designed to prevent future lawsuits.

Slideshow of 11 years of school shootings

Finland still reeling after Jokela school shooting

NIU shooter had trace amounts of drugs in system
March 15, 2008
BY DAVE NEWBART Staff Reporter/dnewbart@suntimes.com
Traces of nicotine, cold medicine and an anti-anxiety drug were found in the body of a man who killed five students in a Northern Illinois University classroom last month, authorities said Friday.
Northern Illinois University released the results of toxicology tests and [...]

Fight for kids

Grand Rapids Press
March 11, 2008

Why does commenting on the fact that there is a problem with the psychiatric system warrant such attack?
Have we not observed the countless side effects of psychiatric medications commercialized on television? What about the increase in school shootings and the fact that these shooters were on psychotropic drugs or [...]

Guns dont kill people; psychiatry does

March 8, 2008
Columbiatribune.com
In view of the rash of shootings recently, may I suggest that what the United States needs is not gun control, but shrink control. When you trace the cause of most of these shootings, it is inevitably mental-health problems in the shooter, and all too often, the shooter [...]

New Mini-Documentary Exposes Psychiatric Drugs Turning Kids into Killers;
54 Dead and 105 Wounded in Recent Teen and School Shootings
  
LOS ANGELES PRNewswire-USNewswire
March 5, 2008 
On February 14, Illinois gunman Steven Kazmierczak became the 12th shooter in the past decade under the influence of psychiatric drugs documented by international drug regulatory agencies to cause suicide, mania, psychosis, hallucinations, [...]

Psychotropic drugs and shootings
March 4, 2008 (SF Chronicle)
Don Hart

The recent shooting at Northern Illinois University is the latest in
a long line of tragedies brought about by the failure of legally
prescribed psychotropic drugs. Virtually every one of these public
massacres was done by people taking these drugs, mostly “selective
serotonin re-uptake inhibitors,” like Prozac, Zoloft and Wellbutrin.
The fact [...]

 What can be done to stop large-scale shootings?
 
Courier-Post (Cherry Hill, New Jersey)
March 2, 2008
 
We asked members of our Camden, Burlington and Gloucester county community editorial boards what they think can be done to prevent shooting sprees such as the one that happened last month at Northern Illinois University and the one last spring at Virginia [...]

Gunman’s parents say he slept in own bed between shootings

9news.com
February 27, 2008
COLORADO SPRING The parents of a gunman who went on a shooting rampage at two religious campuses say they were not “clued in” to the depths of his bitterness. The parents of Matthew Murray talked to 9Wants to Know through their spokeswoman, saying they [...]