@snoopydawg I don't know about antidepressants though; people with mental illness and disability are more likely to be victims of violent crimes rather than perps.
No, the vast majority of these shootings seem to be young racist white boys, or older racist white men.

I think it was Rick Santorum who said these kids should learn CPR, that would be more effective than the protests. Really, CPR for a (likely fatal!) gunshot wound?! Good grief, why do I have to share a planet with these people??!

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There weren't many massive shootings a few generations ago that I'm aware of. Not like what's happening these days. Definitely not school shootings. Columbine was the first that I know of. The other thing to look at is how many of the shooters were on antidepressants? One if not both of the columbine shooters were on them as was the kid that did Sandy hook and the one who did the movie theater one. Many antidepressants have a warning not to prescribe them to their age group.

But the way that our society has declined the last couple of decades, I'm thinking that this could be a reason for the shootings. Jmho ..

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There was a very telling graph-type listing on Wiki of US school shootings by year, showing when school shootings started to appear with increasing frequency, how many school shootings occurred each year and whether in the earlier grades, high school or college/university, in some cases, one of each in the same year, but generally not more than one in each of the same 'class' of students, so to speak. Most often, there was one listed, not every year, but overall increasingly closer to this over recent decades.

I'd had that list copied and observations made on a comment I was working on, but at the rate I'm (not, lol) functioning, the thread was dead long before I'd finished; I kept that thread with the comment up for some time, in case another suitable thread to put it on came up, but although FF generally keeps these saved for me, that was one of the 'hold-over' ones that vanished overnight even though another unfinished one might remain on another page. (Many household chemical exposures really mess me up, making everything difficult, and we have people staying who use a lot of artificially scented personal products which are often inescapable even in my room. This doesn't help...)

At any rate, went looking for that list just now, but the 'list of school shootings' and any related Wiki pages I've now found on this are all arranged differently with nothing remotely suitable for tracking the years when this phenomenon began/increased and all else important to easily seeing the patterns is no longer available on anything I can access.

Efforts to get into any older Wiki or other pages potentially having such lists get me automatic redirects elsewhere with (at least two different) pages (having the same set-up but different names) showing various links, one of which looks suitable (which are also difficult to actually back out of) and warnings - purportedly from FF, that the page should not be accessed because of malware which may delete data from my computer - appear. (Quite possibly faked, but some agency - albeit not necessarily 'agency' as in 'spooks' - went to the trouble of setting up redirect pages and who/which I suspect likely has access to a lot of malware. So, not pushing it for what would likely be another faked-up page anyway.)

Naturally, (air freshener/perfume heavily accumulates outside my door, leaking in; able to actually taste it even in here; throat & lungs are fried - shockingly, it turns out that getting adequate air helps with thinking) I do not recall the dates and other data... but do recall that as I went over it at the time, the more strongly I suspected that, once again, the usual suspects - spook or other manipulation of some sort, using the mentally/emotionally vulnerable (and perhaps discouraging preventative action, as we see time and again in these 'terrorist stings' - and policemen huddled outside schools while people die) - may be involved in any number of these incidents. The Psychopaths That Be and their lackeys certainly have no problem killing children as well as adults to achieve agendas, whether power or profit is concerned.

As we know, they work to get and keep people scared, angry and, ideally, incapable of reasoned thought in order to ensure that they're divided and riled up in opposing directions over 'gun rights'/control as a distraction while further stripping human/Constitutional rights and increasing militarization, the further loss of faith in government, and of the principle of public-protective law and order (especially as expressed in public-protective regulation of potential predators), as an institution, to promote the 'dog eat dog/every man for himself/might is right' ideology that best suits those who've stolen most of the 'might' in all areas and need the people to blindly accept this in order to make it stick.

Violence is the first resort of those incapable of anything else - like reason. Naturally, the psychopathic turn first to force, when they feel it serves their purpose, and often just for fun.

Bringing us back here, yet again (Emphasis mine):

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Operation_Gladio

...Official narrative

What has come to be called Operation Gladio was never intended to be publicly acknowledged. It was a multi-national military plan to arm and train clandestine groups in many (perhaps all) of its member countries and elsewhere in Europe. The official narrative on these networks is confused, contradictory and definitely incomplete, with many basic questions unanswered. The stated reasons for establishing undercover armed groups has tended to focus on use of the secret armies as a fifth column to provide armed resistance in the case of a Soviet invasion.
Problems

The power hierarchy of Gladio remains unclear to this day, and is unknown to elected national leaders. When the European Union learned of the existence of Gladio, it passed a resolution mandating national investigations to reveal what was going on, but as of 2016, only 5 countries have done so (including Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland). A large question mark therefore remains over the role that Operation Gladio has played, and continues to play in influencing events. It seems very likely that the deep state controls these forces whether through the national intelligence services or in more informal fashion. The connection, in particular, with false flag terrorist attacks is particularly concerning.
Operation Gladio B

Full article: Rated 5/5 Operation Gladio B

Sibel Edmonds has exposed an international development of the original Gladio program referred to as "Operation Gladio B", which can be understood as a response in the min 1990s to the subsidence of the Soviet threat after the end of the cold war. As a way of kickstarting the "war on terror", instead of nationalist extremists in European countries, radical Muslims are armed, trained and assisted to carry out terrorist attacks while law enforcement is prevented from intervening.
Introduction
Dr. Daniele Ganser Interview: Nato's Secret Armies - Operation Gladio

Operation Gladio first came to light in Italy in 1990, after over 40 years of clandestine operations. Members of the project revealed that similar projects existed in most if not all countries of Western Europe.[2] These stay-behind networks were, in essence, super secret armies in at least 14 European countries, which were kept secret from the official governmental structures of the host countries – being controlled by other forces such as the CIA and MI6. They remained mostly dormant but were also involved in anti-communist activities including anti-democratic agitation and false flag "terrorism".

The name Gladio, (or ‘Sword’ in Italian) was technically the name given to their operations in Italy, but has since come by extension to stand for the phenomenon as a whole. Evidence of such arrangements, which had been kept secret from both public and politicians democratically elected governments in the host countries for a quarter of a century was revealed through a series of scandalous revelations in Italy and other NATO countries during the 90s, and meticulously documented by Swiss historian Daniele Ganser in his 2004 book NATO’s Secret Armies,[3] arguably the most shocking book ever to be ignored by the corporate media. The evidence contained in Ganser’s book, of terrorism directed against the people by secret armies funded and organised by NATO and answerable to deep state elements within NATO, MI6 and the CIA rather than the respective governments is so shocking that the initial reaction of most people would be to reject it. And yet the claims have been substantiated by juridical inquiries in Italy, Switzerland and Belgium and have been debated (and condemned) in the European Parliament. ...

... The Strategy of Tension

Full article: Strategy of Tension

During his trial, Vincenzo Vinciguerra revealed that, in addition to discrediting left wing political groups, there had been a second aim behind the bombings - to inculcate a climate of fear among the general populace. This was known as the 'strategy of tension' which was intended to generate a pervasive sense of fear which would encourage the population to appeal to the state for protection. As Vincenzo Vinciguerra summarized during his trial:

‘You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public to turn to the State to ask for greater security.’

In Francovich's documentary on Gladio, he described the aim as to ‘destabilise in order to stabilise’… ‘To create tension within the country to promote conservative, reactionary social and political tendencies.’ ...

To relinquish control to 'their betters' rather than demanding democracy and a government of, by and for the people with equal rights, treatment and opportunity for all.

Having corrupt elements in government/the judicial system who ignore Constitutional public protections cannot obviate the principle of public-protective law or the inalienable rights of the people; they are contravening Constitutional public protective law, breaking their Oaths of Office, on the upholding of which their legitimacy rests.

TPTB have essentially nothing but propaganda and often-stolen public wealth and power which was never their 'right' to steal; if the people ever stop going along with the con, it's 99 to 1%.

Edit: for one of those sneaky Russian letter-typos; there are probably more of those Source of All Ebil Comma (since Russia is no longer Communist) bastards on here, too...

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There weren't many massive shootings a few generations ago that I'm aware of. Not like what's happening these days. Definitely not school shootings. Columbine was the first that I know of. The other thing to look at is how many of the shooters were on antidepressants? One if not both of the columbine shooters were on them as was the kid that did Sandy hook and the one who did the movie theater one. Many antidepressants have a warning not to prescribe them to their age group.

But the way that our society has declined the last couple of decades, I'm thinking that this could be a reason for the shootings. Jmho ..