But maybe all the new pediatric, psychiatric diagnosing and psychotropic medications in kids does contribute to school shootings.
Columbine shooter was prescribed anti-depressant
School Shootings Linked to Psychotropic Drugs Such as Prozac, Ritalin, Luvox, and Paxil
From the above link:
Some have looked to use of these substances as the possible common thread to the school shootings. Here are the facts. 18 year-old Jeremy Strohmeyer, who murdered a 7 year-old girl in Las Vegas, Nevada; 16 year-old Luke Woodham, who killed two teenage girls and wounded seven in Pearl, Mississippi; 14 year-old Michael Carneal, who killed three teens and wounded five in West Paducah, Kentucky; 11 year-old Andrew Golden and 14 year-old Mitchell Johnson, who killed four students and wounded ten in Jonesboro, Arkansas; and 15 year-old Kip Kinkle of Springfield, Oregon, who after murdering his parents, killed two students and wounded twenty-two, all took antidepressant psychiatric drugs.
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Maybe it's because these kids were largely ignored by their parents when they were growing up, became depressed, parents again ignored them by medicating them, and the kids took things into their own hands, however extreme. (This is not saying parents who work ignore their kids.)