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HankB wrote:The difference is that guns have been around for centuries and school shootings seem to have started around the time shrinks started doping kids in large numbers . . .

and we got video games, personal computers, violent TV programming, hip-hop music, adoration of societies misfits, increasing percentage of out-of-wedlock births, etc, etc, etc. All of it adds up to an interesting cocktail that is having a detrimental effect on society in general, but I would hesitate to assign blame to any individual item.

Picking a single "cause" is exactly what the Brady Bunch and similar groups do, i.e. THEY want people to believe that if you eliminate guns then you eliminate murder and mahem. WE know violence is part of human nature and firearms are merely a tool that removes size and strength from the equation.

HankB wrote:The articles in WND do not constitute scientific proof, though the correlations suggest there's ample cause to study the issue . . . but the vehemence of some of the reactions from the shrink community sure make it look as if they want to avoid the scrutiny.

The correlations are very interesting, but do not constitute cause and effect. I could just as easily argue that only people with guns shoot people and then say that reactions from the gun-owning community to my argument sure makes it look as if they want to avoid scrutiny.

Prescriptions medications are but one of a steadily growing laundry list of items that contribute to our declining society but I would hesitate to single them out as a "cause". In my mind, they are just another symptom.