A brief history of school shootings

This list below is from the Wikipedia page – School Shooting – what I notice is that school shootings are a fairly recent phenomenon (late 1980s/early 1990s onwards) and they do seem to happen mainly in the USA.

OK, so this is not a scientific survey by any means, but doesn’t this list make you stop and think?

• Enoch Brown school massacre – July 26, 1764
• Poe Elementary School Attack – September 15, 1959
• University of Texas at Austin massacre – August 1, 1966
• Kent State shootings – May 4, 1970
• Avivim school bus massacre – May 8, 1970
• Jackson State killings – May 14–15, 1970
• Ma’alot massacre – May 15, 1974
• California State University – July 12, 1976
• Parkway South Junior High School shooting – January 20, 1983
• Laurie Dann – May 20, 1988
• Stockton massacre – January 17, 1989
• École Polytechnique Massacre – December 6, 1989
• University of Iowa shooting – November 1, 1991
• Concordia University massacre – August 24, 1992
• Simon’s Rock College of Bard shooting – December 14, 1992
• Richland High School shooting – 1995.
• Frontier Junior High shooting – February 2, 1996
• Dunblane massacre – Scotland, March 13, 1996
• Sanaa massacre – Yemen, March 30, 1997
• Pearl High School shooting, October 1, 1997
• Heath High School shooting, December 1, 1997
• Jonesboro massacre – March 24, 1998
• Thurston High School shooting – May 21, 1998
• Columbine High School massacre – 1999
• W. R. Myers High School shooting – April 28, 1999
• Heritage High School shooting – May 20, 1999
• Santana High School – March 5, 2001
• Appalachian School of Law shooting – 2002
• Erfurt massacre – Germany, 2002
• Monash University shooting – Australia, October 21, 2002
• Rocori High School shootings – September 24, 2003
• Southwood Middle School tragedy, 2004
• Red Lake High School massacre – March 21, 2005
• Campbell County High School – November 8, 2005
• Dawson College shooting – Canada, September 13, 2006
• Platte Canyon High School shooting – September 27, 2006
• Amish school shooting – October 2, 2006
• Weston High School shooting, September 29, 2006
• Henry Foss High School – 2007
• Beirut Arab University shooting – Lebanon, January 25, 2007
• Virginia Tech massacre – April 16, 2007

As Peter Breggin has written recently in an article about the Virgina Tech masssacre; “For the past fifteen years or more, I’ve been writing about the capacity of psychiatric drugs to cause mayhem, murder and suicide. In early 2005 the FDA finally issued a warning that antidepressants cause both suicidality and violence. For example, the FDA’s new mandated warning label for antidepressants states that these drugs produce “anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity, akathisia (psychomotor restlessness), hypomania, and mania.”

Note the reference to “irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity” in the label or package insert for antidepressants. That’s a formula for violence. Note the mention of akathisia, another source of both violence and suicide. And finally, note the reference to mania, yet another drug-induced syndrome associated with violence and suicide.”

Could there be any connection between the increase in the use of psychiatric drugs (thanks to Big Pharma’s marketing efforts) in the last 15 years or so and the huge increase in the occurrence of these extremely violent shooting incidents?

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