[pelicandriver]

Considering the high number of boys prescribed ritalin, that could turn into huge numbers!

[neverdem]

Considering the high number of boys prescribed ritalin, that could turn into huge numbers!

Off topic, but I did a search on ADD and ADHD and military eligibilty one day. They have to be off the meds for one year prior to enlistment.

[Joe Brower]

From what I have seen, ADHD (and it's many other incarnations such as ADD, etc.) is a dangerously broad brush. Many of these cases are simply kids who, without the old-fashioned "sit down, shut up and pay attention" approach to children from yesteryear, cannot develop enough self-control to function properly. There are some kids who need help via drugs such as Ritalin, but my observations are that most times this is unnecessary or an easy way out in dealing with the kid.

I have also seen where a young man, as good as they come, was diagnosed with ADHD or somesuch and forced to take Ritalin, and as a direct result now he can't even get into the miltary because of his previous prescription to the drug. Sounds like a typical big-government operation to me!

Of course, the end-game to this sort of legislation is the eventual "consensus" among the "psychiatric community" that you're mental unbalanced just to want to own a gun, and it's Catch-22 time.