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.

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 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 [...]

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 [...]