[Morgan's Raider]

Firearms figure in about half of all youth suicides, and by now it is neither secret nor speculative that having a firearm at home significantly increases the chance of a depressed adolescent ending his or her own life.

Speculation. More likely the presence of Ritalin, Luvox, and other psychotropic drugs in the bloodstream significantly increases the chance of any adolescent committing suicide more than any availabillity of firearms in the home.

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Just think, the $200 billion that Bush has spent on the wrong war at the wrong time, could have saved all 4,000 of these kids. Right?

[SauronOfMordor]

Speculation. More likely the presence of Ritalin, Luvox, and other psychotropic drugs in the bloodstream significantly increases the chance of any adolescent committing suicide more than any availabillity of firearms in the home.

We've had guns in homes in the US since the earliest colonies. We've had troubled teens since the dawn of time. Yet it seems like it's only been around the last 20 years that we've had problems with mass school killings. Coincidently, it's been in the last 20 years that we've been heavily drugging kids

[maine-iac7]

prescription drugs -
exactly - do a search on Ritalin, Prozac etc for children - it's been well established for years but ignored until this past month - protecting the mega-industry/Drug companies...that these drugs are routinely pushed onto the youth of this country - and they have NEVER been tested nor approved for use in children!
Side effects include suicide and violence, All the school shootings were by children on these drugs - the shooting a few years ago by and adult at the day-trading place - was by a person on these drugs.
You want to stop some of these tragedies? Stop giving these drugs to the children.
They've finally passed a stipulation that a warning must be put on the pill bottles. Well, Congress - why don't you go after these legal drug pushers if you're really concerned about the violence and suicide?
Don't use the problem as an excuse for a different agenda.
Hundreds of thousands are killed each year in car accidents. Are we going to go back to horses?
Hundreds of thousands die each year in hospital/doctor 'accidents" - Who is trying to address this?
It would seem no one cares about these deaths - more per year than in any war - because it doesn't promote some political agenda.
How many people are killed per year with knives? Are we going to outlaw knives? (Maybe we can just take our meat in our hands and gnaw away.)
And should we get rid of all bridges and use only ferries?
(In my area, last year, we had a high schooler, depressed and on Prozac, put a rope around his neck and jump off a bridge. Miraculously, people acting fast were able to pull him up - his neck hadn't broken and after hospitalization, he survived. Should we take down that bridge and outlaw ropes?)
And Jimmy Carter closed down the mental intstitutions and turned these poor people in need of help out onto the streets with little to no recourse for help and treatment.
Yes, It's tragic that the gentleman lost his son - but let him go after the real problem...Stop drugging our kids!

[c-b 1]

Speculation. More likely the presence of Ritalin, Luvox, and other psychotropic drugs in the bloodstream significantly increases the chance of any adolescent committing suicide more than any availabillity of firearms in the home.

More speculation, could a decline in Bible study in the home be proportional to the increase in suicide?