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Monday, May 21st, 2018

No, Oliver North—Ritalin Is Not Leading to School Shootings

Author:     NEEL V. PATEL
Source:     Daily Beast
Publication Date:     05.20.18 8:32 PM ET
 Link: No, Oliver North—Ritalin Is Not Leading to School Shootings
Stephan:   The NRA, in my view is a truly evil organization, I cannot imagine how any ethical person could belong to it. It has selected as its new president one of the Fox zombies, Oliver North. The NRA doesn't seem to recognize the glaring irony of selecting as your president a man who is a convicted felon, money launderer, gun and drug smuggler in support of terrorists, and perjurer in front of congress. Although actually, upon reflection I think the organization and the man are well-matched. As it happens I have met Oliver North several times and he's not very bright, although perhaps the gun corporations that own the NRA see that as a plus. Here he presents the NRA argument for gun violence in schools. It is, of course, complete crap.

Oliver North, convicted felon, arms smuggler, drug smuggler, and perjurer, and now president of the NRA

Incoming NRA president Oliver North has a strange theory about why Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17,  marched into Santa Fe High School outside of Houston, Texas last Friday and killed 10 people with a shotgun and .38 revolver, while wounding 13 others. North, the disgraced former National Security Council staffer who funneled proceeds from arms sales to Iran to benefit Nicaraguan terrorists during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, blames  violent video games and Ritalin.

“The problem we’ve got is we’re trying like the dickens to treat the symptom without treating the disease,” North said on Fox News Sunday. “And the disease, in this case, isn’t the Second Amendment. The disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence, they’ve been drugged in many cases. Nearly all of these perpetrators are male and they’re young teenagers in most cases.”

“Many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten,” North claimed, without evidence. “Now I’m certainly not a doctor, […]

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