FSU shooter fit no profile. Successful lawyer, children's advocate.

[Kurska]

33. At least you are using the right word now.

You're presenting the assertion that because some school shooters were on meds the meds could have caused them to do the school shooting.

So if there is a causal link, why is it functioning for only a tiny sliver of the population? These drugs are given to millions of people, if they are strong enough to make people kill why aren't we swamped with millions of murders? Gee, you think it might actually be that the kind of people who get put on psychiatric drugs tend to have the kind of problems in their lives or personality issues that might make them represent a statistically higher percentage of school shooters than the general population? Maybe correlation isn't causation, like they teach you in any basic statistics course.

"Add to that the fact that many anti-depressants and drugs for bi-polar disorder--which have not been tested on teens but are being increasingly prescribed for them--cause homicidal or suicidal behavior. "

Okay, even if I accepted your premise, which is that SSRI's (which are what you are actually talking about don't know if you know that) cause homicidal or suicidal behavior, how would you know that it does that in teens if they haven't been tested on teens (they have actually, of course they have they wouldn't be prescribing them is they hadn't).

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cap.2006.0138

Metanalysis of many different studies that found no link (in fact a reduction) in aggression for teens when on prozac vs. placebo.

Meanwhile, Lithium (the drug used for bi-polar disorder) is a mood stabilizer that reduces both aggression and suicidal thoughts. That is the point of the damn thing, it makes bipolar people better.

These drugs aren't untested, they are generally safe (just like how any medication can cause a bad reaction) and have clinically significant helpful effects. I don't care about your anecdotes when the newest and best evidence is showing that the hysterical reactions of people to early studies are being disproved by newer and more comprehensive research across several studies.

This is just like the vaccines cause autism business. A few early studies raise the alarm, science investigates it finds there isn't a problem and yahoos like the church of Scientology pimp old data,, cherry picked correlations and anecdotes to attack modern medicine.