If you google school shoters and psychiatric medications, you will get many articles. I think most of them speak of maybe the last 13 school shootings that were high media and out of those 13, 8 involved shooters who used psychiatric medications? Which is more than half, and to me, an inordinately high number of people.
It could be that these kids were already identified as high risk, or it could be something more.
On CNN last nite or nite before there was Sanjay Gupta and someone else- maybe a forensic psychiatric- and they did discuss how an AD can lift a persons energy just enough to act out on their feelings, but not enough to lift the negativity.
I do know there has been a lot of research done re: school shootings and many people and organizations trying to find a way to stop these tragic incidents. But for now, we do not lock up all persons who seem a little "off" or have a "dark" side or who is a loner. And if we dug hard enough we could find something "wrong" with everyone. (if you google something like Teenscreen- you might find articles referring to just how many people could be diagnosis'ed with some type of mental illness using such screening tools.....nearly everyone could possibly earn themself a diagnosis)
Now here is something sad. Last week at a HS in the city here...a student discharged a gun he got into the school by accident- I mean he discharged it by accident, LOL- I did not mean he got it into the school by accident, anyway- he and another student were injured. Turns ouut that HS DID have metal detectors at the doors, but last I knew (which may have changed by now) was that the kid DID go thru the metal detectors with the gun. ANd the detector DID go off....BUT.......noone CHECKED him and he was waved on, anyway!!!!! My dtr - my easy child was quite angry that last year 2 students in her school were found on school premises with a 2 guns (one gun each) BUT that never made the newspaper and the word was not spread around that it had happened, it was kept quite secret.
I know stores here have those things you walk under when you leave the store and theory is an alarm sounds if you stole something. I cannot tell you how many times the alarm sounds and the person at the door simply waves people thru and does not bother to check to see if anything was stolen. SO even when there ARE "safeguards" put in place, people dismiss the info gained from the security equipment.
AH and then we have our county courthouse and I went there with a splint on my wrist......and nevermind it was a medical thing- the security required I remove my splint, nevermind it made me yelp in pain and ache for days afterward. I HAD to remove the splint and then clear the metal detector without the splint. My husband said when he went thru our county courthouse security with his walker, it was quite complicated-----and painful. SO I guess I should take some measure of comfort in the fact my county courthouse seems to take security seriously? LOL----the guards at the front doors one day made some comment to me, bordering on rude, and I said HEY! excuse me BUT not ALL of us who come to the courthouse are defendants............some of us are victims, some of us are witnesses, some are spectators, and some of us are other county employees going to the human resources office here in the building-------and some of us are here for county records such as birth certificates and such. Please keep that in mind. We are ALL entitled to some measure of respect and dignity! (his comment had something to do with everyone being there was in his opinion becuz they were ALL defendants)
