How to Prevent a Tragedy

Well, there you go. NIU shooter helps maintain the perfect record for the relation between school shootings and anti-depressants. How many more will die big Pharm?

Backwhen hit the nail on the head. Why has no one noticed that while school shooters come from very different backgrounds (young, old, asian, white, black, indian, male female) they all have one thing in common: antidepressants. I am currently waiting to hear if the NIU shooter will keep this record 100%.

I think that the media should also take some blame for all mass shootings. These people know that after their murderous rampages taking their own life that they will be famous which is part of the reason that they do it. The media coverage also leads to copy cats. The best solution would be to just report what happens with out posting the gunman's name and photo. More gun control is not the answer because it is doubtful that someone who is going to commit mass murder then suicide will have any regards for laws restricting firearms. Some type of frustration hotline might also help as would stricter punishment for bullying and smaller schools. People in large schools often become displaced and frustrated which is what leads to this kind of behavior. If stricter gun laws are the answer then how can one explain the school shootings in Germany, Finland, The Netherlands and the gun free paradise of the United Kingdom?

As with the Nebraska Mall Shootings, antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs keep figuring in these homicides/suicides and the professionals can monitor all they want but until the marketing, distribution and prescription of the harmful drugs that induce a suicidal and/or homicidal state of mind are looked into, these shootings can occur at any time and it would seem that no amount of increased monitoring can really prevent them. If you look at prevention of what helps put an individual more into a suicidal or homicidal state of mind or worsens their state of mind to a point where they will snap, then maybe these shootings could be reduced or prevented. Otherwise it looks like they could happen at any time because the marketing, distribution and prescription of these drugs continues totally unabated, unregulated or prohibited in any way except for the black box warnings.