The Common Link

There has been a furious and heated debate over the cause of school violence. The media points a finger at violent video games. But most people who play these games don't commit violence. Others say it's the lack of discipline and guidance from parents. Sure that has an effect on kids, but that still doesn't turn them into killers. Then, there are those who blame guns, so we get into gun control issues.

But in all these school shootings there is one common link that gets touched on, then glanced over: psychiatric drugs like Ritalin and Prozac.

Almost all of the shooters (and if you read the various news stories this will back me up) had taken, or been on, psychiatric drugs around the time of the killings. Note: None of them killed before taking these drugs.

Can I say definitively that the drugs were the sole cause of the killings? No. These were troubled teens to begin with. But the drugs—which have side-effects of violent or suicidal tendencies—certainly pushed them over the edge.

I don't think any children should be put on these drugs. Previous generations survived without them, and they endured wars, the Depression and other horrific events. When you give potent side-effect laden drugs to emotionally disturbed children, it adds the fuse to the bomb.

We'll never know if these teens would have killed if they hadn't been on these drugs. But let's not take a chance on this happening again. Watch the video from Fox News and fight to keep kids off drugs.

Fox National News exposes the link between psychiatric drugs and school shootings:
Click here to watch 3 min. video