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Incoming NRA President Oliver North blames school shootings on ‘culture of violence,’ Ritalin
Washington Times ^ | May 20, 2018 | Bradford Richardson

Posted on 05/20/2018 8:08:00 AM PDT by EdnaMode

Incoming National Rifle Association President Oliver North says school shootings are the product of a “culture of violence,” not the Second Amendment.

“The problem that we’ve got is we’re trying like the dickens to treat the symptom without treating the disease,” Mr. North said on “Fox News Sunday.” “And the disease in this case isn’t the Second Amendment. The disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence.” He said everything from violence on television to Ritalin, a drug used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, may be contributing to the problem.

“Nearly all of these perpetrators are male, and they’re young teenagers in most cases, and they’ve come through a culture where violence is commonplace,” Mr. North said. “All we need to do is turn on a TV, go to a movie. If you look at what has happened to the young people, many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten. Now, I am certainly not a doctor; I’m a Marine. But I can see those kinds of things happening.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: banglist; nra; olivernorth; ritalin; santafe; santafehigh; santafeshooting; schoolshooting
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To: Ann Archy

Dumb move. My kid’s first grade teacher wanted him on it. I said hell no. Now, he is still different, very intelligent, struggling, but doesn’t need to be on that. Any time someone talks to me about Adderall, I tell them that Adderall will wreck whoever’s life it is prescribed to. I have seen it happen too often.


21 posted on 05/20/2018 8:46:51 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: I want the USA back

what do you have against baseball hot dogs and ice cream?


22 posted on 05/20/2018 8:47:35 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: donozark

“I’ve read that in some schools 25% of students are on medication of some type. Shocking if true...”

Sounds right.

According to the Nat Institute of Mental Health the prevalence of mental disorders in Americans is 1 in 4.

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness.shtml#part_154785


23 posted on 05/20/2018 8:48:18 AM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: Vaduz

spanking is a violent response, no?


24 posted on 05/20/2018 8:48:40 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: EdnaMode

I hate losing Wayne LaPierre (if he indeed is going) because he is a BULLDOG.... but Oliver North is solid, too.


25 posted on 05/20/2018 8:50:24 AM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: yldstrk

Plus. the military will not take anyone who has been on these mind altering drugs.....iirc.


26 posted on 05/20/2018 8:50:54 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: EdnaMode

America has always been violent. The difference is, if anyone had shot up a school in the old days, he would’ve been hanging from a tree before bedtime.

It doesn’t take that much to determine guilt. But we think we’re wise to let teams of lawyers argue about it for years and years and years. Meanwhile notoreity, fame and fanbases grow for these twisted animals who stick around to face the music. They often even get proposals from starstruck girls, when before, they couldn’t even get a date.

We need vastly expedited justice in these cases so that others, who might be contemplating something similar, find it impossible to see an upside.


27 posted on 05/20/2018 8:55:00 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: EdnaMode

Simple FACT:

Since the introduction of gun free school zones, school shootings have increased THREE FOLD.


28 posted on 05/20/2018 8:55:15 AM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: LibWhacker

To me, that’s just sick and disturbing that some mass murderers has fangirls.


29 posted on 05/20/2018 9:00:12 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Ritalin = Kiddie Cocaine


30 posted on 05/20/2018 9:03:33 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: EdnaMode

Giving kids these drugs is nothing more than the chemical castration of boys.

Also, what do they expect is going to happen when they boot God and religion from the schools?

If a kid brings a Bible to school, the moonbat “teachers” and administrators treat it as though it’s a package of plutonium.


31 posted on 05/20/2018 9:03:47 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Washington is NOT a swamp.....It's a cesspool!)
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To: EdnaMode

32 posted on 05/20/2018 9:14:50 AM PDT by PROCON (Man-made climate change is failed science based on fraudulent data)
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To: EdnaMode

Did Ollie North ever support the assault weapons ban back in the 90’s or is that fake news?


33 posted on 05/20/2018 9:16:50 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: EdnaMode

Yes, he does. About time!!


34 posted on 05/20/2018 9:17:45 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: EdnaMode

My daughter was prescribed Ritalin after one week she came after me with a knife. That drug is very dangerous.


35 posted on 05/20/2018 9:18:32 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: JudyinCanada

I think I read his mother works in the healthcare industry???


36 posted on 05/20/2018 9:19:05 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: I want the USA back

“It’s that Christianity/Judaism have been thrown out. They carry with them principles of life, or a moral code. They were replaced with essentially nothing, or nihilistic liberalism.

When the very obvious truths of existence are thrown away, the kids have nothing to replace them with.”

BINGO!


37 posted on 05/20/2018 9:20:42 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: Lazamataz

Not replacing, joining the club.


38 posted on 05/20/2018 9:26:08 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: EdnaMode

I thought violent crime is way down? Seems like we would see more if video games were to blame. I think it is alienation caused by social media and the 24 hour entertainment culture.

Freegards


39 posted on 05/20/2018 9:29:59 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: EdnaMode
"He makes a very good point."

Yes he is. This has become a cultural phenomenon IMHO with multiple factors, and or including as he mentioned Ritalin, SSRI drugs, lack of father figures, lack of consistent parenting ( foster kids moving around ), the effects of "e communications and media" aka snapchat, instagram, FB etc that are having possibly corrosive effects on feelings of community and connective-ness, diet, exercise, and Faith. Tangent is do we need to revisit institutionalization, no one will go near that subject matter.

40 posted on 05/20/2018 9:33:35 AM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Song of Angry Men!")
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