Mass shooting at south Minneapolis church

[RazorV66]

He's right. Knock it off.

Knock what off?

Speaking the truth?

Yeah ok.

[Orby]

Don't let them use this to take your guns away. Stand for your rights, there will always be a few nutters in any society, doesn'y mean they can use such isolated incidents to take away your weapons like they did with us British peoples after Hungerford. They just took away our swords too! If they come after our medeival bows I'm out of here. Stay strong pro weapons folks 

[Chiefsmom]

I thought the mom did sign off on him changing his name?   

Honestly, I don't care as much about the trans side of this.
I believe there are actual trans, but that it is rare.  Not like what is going on today.
I think that it is a symptom of something much worse.

I know there was a lot of research, (Unscientific) on the past shooters, that had been on ADHD, ADD type meds on ATS (hopefully I can find it again some day)  
I would love to know about this person, if they were on it.

I know for a fact, that while there are/where many kids that this meds helped greatly, there were/are many, many more, that were prescribed these drugs in the late 90's, 2000 and up, that were never actually tested for ADD, ADHD, yet put on these meds.  Doctor wrote a script for my son, after a 15 min office visit.   Still to this day so grateful I ripped it up.  Then had him tested.  Nope, Not ADD or ADHD.

We have no clue, what the drugs do to kids that didn't have what it was made to treat.  How bad do they mess up an adolescent mind?  Can they cause Psychosis?   Are any doctors or scientists looking into this?   It's been over30 years since it started being handed out like candy.   Is it just being swept under the rug, because agendas can be pushed because of it?
We need mental hospitals back, like we used to have, and this needs to be honestly studied, very deeply.

Cause we are in trouble.

[WallFlowerActive]

We have no clue, what the drugs do to kids that didn't have what it was made to treat.  

Its a little different, I’m having severe leg pain.  All the doctors wanted to do was throw meds and physical therapy at it without trying to see what is actually wrong with an MRI.  Like putting tape over the low tire pressure alarm in a car and told to drive faster.

I get the body is a chemical machine.  What if these kids just need to go out and play more.  But where is the money and fame in that.

[PorkChop96]

Its a little different, I’m having severe leg pain.  All the doctors wanted to do was throw meds and physical therapy at it without trying to see what is actually wrong with an MRI.  Like putting tape over the low tire pressure alarm in a car and told to drive faster.

I get the body is a chemical machine.  What if these kids just need to go out and play more.  But where is the money and fame in that.

That is for sure a major flaw in the scope of modern medicine, too many doctors are on the payroll of big pharma and make hundreds of thousands of dollars for prescribing this crap that they are putting everyone on.

[Oldcarpy2]

I'd be interested to know whether those that believe transgenders have a mental illness also think gay folk  do, too?

[UltraBudgie]

I'd be interested to know whether those that believe transgenders have a mental illness also think gay folk  do, too?

Be more specific. Gay men or gay women?

[Oldcarpy2]

Be more specific. Gay men or gay women?

Either or both.

[UltraBudgie]

Either or both.

Ah. Then, no.

[SomeStupidName]

Have you read the letters praising his family with love?

He seems to have lived in an isolated protective cocoon. 

Does he mention anything or anyone — like a friend — outside his family?

A loner whose life seems to be online. 

Just my observation from early information. 

There could be much more coming.

And gender variances in school these days is not unusual. The kids don’t care. They protect their friends.

He did apologize in his letter to his friends and said they were good friends. He made it clear everyone was very helpful and are the reason he made it as far as he had in life.