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originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: Krazysh0t
That's exactly the point an orphan whose adoption parents died relatively recently and who can't make social contacts because of it is not depressed or mentally ill in any way those drugs are designed to help.
But there is something in our society that seems to not only enable this, it emboldens it.
I sure as hell don't have the answers to this, but I do know that if we don't all have RATIONAL discussions about this, and talk about the uncomfortable things, this won't change. We all need to be willing to look into the dark closet that frightens us.
the killing just needs to stop.
Mass shootings. None of us can deny that the US has an unfair advantage on this topic
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: Krazysh0t
Right sure carry on try to ban guns instead of fixing the issue.
Meanwhile he was an orphan. Why is there nobody having an eye in him from the adoption services after his parents died? He was screaming before he did it on all social media for help, he wanted to be stopped. Nobody cared.
He told his classmates what he was about to do. I Imagine as he was expelled he felt now finally they have to recognise him, instead they expelled him.
Am I the only one who sees how broken society is that not one single person took the time to give him some attention?
originally posted by: network dude
If we all think back to our younger years and try to remember some of the "catastrophes" that we faced. Failing a class, getting dumped by a girl, dealing with a bully. They all seemed insurmountable at the time, but looking back, they were nothing compared to the challenges we faced as adults. If we can get kids to grasp this without them feeling we are being condescending, it might go a long way. But that in itself is a large challenge, as I also recall, I knew everything back then.
I am tired of empty thoughts and prayers, I want the killing to end.
originally posted by: RomeByFire
originally posted by: network dude
If we all think back to our younger years and try to remember some of the "catastrophes" that we faced. Failing a class, getting dumped by a girl, dealing with a bully. They all seemed insurmountable at the time, but looking back, they were nothing compared to the challenges we faced as adults. If we can get kids to grasp this without them feeling we are being condescending, it might go a long way. But that in itself is a large challenge, as I also recall, I knew everything back then.
I am tired of empty thoughts and prayers, I want the killing to end.
People all over the globe face these same issues but don't resort to killing innocent kids on high school as alleviation.
I am tired of the scapegoating, the solution is really rather simple.
But in some people's eyes, the right for mentally ill people to access firearms and kill innocents is more important than the right for sixteen year olds to go to high school without the threat of being murdered.
There is not TIME for intensive studies into these drugs, because the problems being caused by the access insane people have to firearms, are existent NOW, and those experiments, trials and so on take an inordinate amount of time.
It's so much bigger than guns, or ADHD drugs, or video games, but it's all those things, and more. Empathy. The ability to care about the life of other people, or animals.
originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
Anti-depressants don't just help the patient stop feeling depressed or anxious, they numb the entire emotional spectrum. The main reason a criminal will back out of an illegal activity is because they get too anxious or fearful, without those emotions, and other emotions like empathy, these kids become cold and calculated killers who feel nothing, their emotions have been dampened to the point that they can easily murder people and feel nothing.
the killing just needs to stop.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
So long as the defacto "answer" is "we need to outlaw guns" then we miss the greater point of "what has changed"?