They were drilled, they had done all that was advised and more. Yet you still cant prepare for a lunatic with a gun, simple as.
Melissa Falkowski, a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, talks with Rachel Maddow about what she experienced as a gunman terrorized her school, and how previous drills prepared students and staff for the very real horror.
A guy tries to blow up a plane with his shoes and we have controls and checks on shoes at airportsā¦
It is but it aint a philly eagle. Ours being the only nfl logo that points left not right as you look at it.
Queers.
So what was this young lads problem that he felt the need to go to the school and shoot a load of folks?
The silicon chip inside his head had switched to overload.
He was expelled. He was also familiar with the drill protocol as he had partaken in many of them whilst still in school
A fair bit of manure being spread here .
It may be true that Ireland has the same level of actual mental illness as the US, but would disagree completely on diagnosis and treatment. In the 1980s, two percent of Americans were taking anti-depressants, that number is 13% and climbing. Prozac and other SSRIs only started to be prescribed for adults in the 1980s, and are now handed out like candy to kids, many of whom are not mentally ill. Effectively we have been conducting a large scale clinical trial using anti-depressants and other psychiatric drugs to treat a variety of mental disorders, and in many cases behavioral problems.
I am not against psychiatric drugs in general, and there is no doubt they help millions of people. However, there may be an unintended side effect to prescribing these drugs to children. Mass school killings are a new phenomenon, so the question is why are mentally ill children becoming so violent.
So itās the anti depressants not the guns that are to blame? Why donāt Irish people on anti depressants not go on mass shooting sprees?
How commonly are children in Ireland prescribed anti depressants and when did this practice start?
Youāre avoiding the central question, which is why are some people with mental disorders becoming so violent? There is no historical link between depression and violence, these type of mass killings are a recent phenomena. Guns, including semi automatic weapons, are not a recent phenomena.
But carry on thinking guns are the causal agent for people, especially the young, becoming violent.
Because America is a hell hole for the most part where humans are treated as commodities with every fabric of their life controlled and manipulated by corporate interests.
From what I have seen Ireland isnāt lagging behind too much in that regard.
The late 1990s
In some ways ā¦ But the government supplies a lot of services here for the good of people where in America they donāt, itās undercut by corporates and big bizā¦ Materialism is certainly rife in Ireland but we are not preyed on to the same level as the average American isā¦
Matt Cooper has been driven demented by democratically elected President Trump.
Heās absolutely seething here on his show. A Republican pro gun chap contributor had him wound up to the last too.
Do you have any data to back up that statement?
I donāt have the time to research it right now, but Iām fairly confident the US spends more on govt services than Ireland, on a per capita basis and as a % of GDP. In fact Iām pretty sure Ireland is low in this regard on the list of developed countries.
Iāll have it for you tomorrow.
