What have 12 school shooters going back to 1998 have in common?
\nThey Were Under The Influence Of Psychiatric Drugs!<\/p>\n
Stats:<\/p>\n
Wounded: 109
\nDead: 57<\/p>\n
1. Kauhajoki, Finland — September 23, 2008: 22-year-old culinary\u00c2\u00a0student Matti Saari shot and killed 9 students and a teacher, and\u00c2\u00a0wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an\u00c2\u00a0SSRI and a benzodiazapine.<\/p>\n
2.\u00c2\u00a0Dekalb, Illinois — February 14, 2008: 27-year-old Steven\u00c2\u00a0Kazmierczak shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before\u00c2\u00a0killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium.<\/p>\n
According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac,\u00c2\u00a0Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace\u00c2\u00a0amount of Xanax in his system.<\/p>\n
3.\u00c2\u00a0Jokela, Finland — November 7, 2007: 18-year-old Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School in southern Finland, then committed suicide.<\/p>\n
4.\u00c2\u00a0Cleveland, Ohio — October 10, 2007: 14-year-old Asa Coon stormed\u00c2\u00a0through his school with a gun in each hand, shooting and wounding\u00c2\u00a0four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon had been\u00c2\u00a0placed on the antidepressant Trazodone.<\/p>\n
5. Red Lake, Minnesota — March 2005: 16-year-old Jeff Weise, on Prozac, shot and killed his grandparents, then went to his school on the Red Lake Indian Reservation where he shot dead 7 students and a teacher, and wounded 7 before killing himself.<\/p>\n
6. Greenbush, New York — February 2004: 16-year-old Jon Romano strolled into his high school in east Greenbush and opened fire with a shotgun. Special education teacher Michael Bennett was hit in the leg. Romano had been taking “medication for depression”.<\/p>\n
7. El Cajon, California — March 22, 2001: 18-year-old Jason Hoffman, on the antidepressants Celexa and Effexor, opened fire on his classmates, wounding three students and two teachers at Granite Hills High School.<\/p>\n
8. Williamsport, Pennsylvania — March 7, 2001: 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush was taking the antidepressant Prozac when she shot at fellow students, wounding one.<\/p>\n
9. Conyers, Georgia — May 20, 1999: 15-year-old T.J. Solomon was being treated with antidepressants when he opened fire on and wounded six of his classmates.<\/p>\n
10. Columbine, Colorado — April 20, 1999: 18-year-old Eric Harris and his accomplice, Dylan Klebold, killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 26 others before killing themselves. Harris was on the antidepressant Luvox. Klebold’s medical records remain sealed.<\/p>\n
11.\u00c2\u00a0Notus, Idaho — April 16, 1999: 15-year-old Shawn Cooper fired two\u00c2\u00a0shotgun rounds in his school, narrowly missing students. He was\u00c2\u00a0taking a prescribed SSRI antidepressant and Ritalin.<\/p>\n
12. Springfield, Oregon — May 21, 1998: 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his parents and then proceeded to school where he opened fire on students in the cafeteria, killing two and wounding 25. Kinkel had been taking the antidepressant Prozac.<\/p>\n