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Back When Schools Had Gun Clubs
Up here in upstate New York, there was a time when high schools had gun clubs. That was not seen as dangerous. It was a point of pride. Young men brought their hunting rifles to school, left shotguns in the back window of their pickup trucks, and no one blinked an eye. Guns were not feared. They were respected. Students shot skeet after school, then went home to their families for dinner. Even in the early 1980s, this was normal, and yet there were no lockdown drills, no metal detectors, and certainly no mass shootings.
So What Changed?
It was not the presence of firearms. Guns were more accessible back then than they are now. It was not a loss of morals or discipline. Schools had stricter codes of conduct, and families were still somewhat intact. The difference between then and now can be traced to one devastating shift in how we raise and manage our children.
We began to drug them.
We took a generation of young people and fed them pharmaceuticals from the time they could walk. We told them their emotions were disorders. We said their boredom was a mental condition. We convinced their parents that every child needed a label and every label required a chemical solution. And with that, we handed over the future of our nation to a system that rewrites the human brain with synthetic compounds.
Medicated and Disconnected
This is not speculation. It is reality. The same drugs that are being pumped into millions of children today come with known side effects that include suicidal thoughts, emotional instability, violent ideation, and mental disconnection from reality. These are not just psychiatric medications. We are talking about a wide range of prescription drugs that alter the mind and suppress the soul.
Here is what the average American teen might be taking in any given week:
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Asthma inhalers for respiratory issues
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Steroids for inflammation or joint pain
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Sleep aids to regulate broken sleep cycles
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Nicotine patches to break habits formed by anxiety
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Allergy medications for food or seasonal reactions
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Migraine treatments that alter neurological activity
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Stimulants like Adderall or Ritalin for focus
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Anti-anxiety drugs to flatten emotional responses
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Antidepressants to suppress despair
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Hormonal birth control that disrupts natural cycles
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Pain pills for sports injuries or chronic discomfort
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Acne medications that interfere with hormonal balance
This is what millions of teenagers are putting into their bodies every single day. And we wonder why they feel lost, disconnected, and broken.
Pharmaceuticals and School Shootings
We are shocked when a young man walks into a school and commits an unthinkable act of violence, but we never stop to consider what his daily prescription list looks like. We mourn when a teenager takes their own life, but we never ask what chemical alterations their brain has been subjected to for the past five years. We fear the next school shooting, but we refuse to admit that we are chemically manufacturing instability.
You cannot fill a child with synthetic hormones, mood stabilizers, and stimulants, then expect them to function as if they are thinking clearly and feeling normally. You cannot medicate away pain, insecurity, and identity confusion without triggering long-term neurological damage. We are not calming these children. We are rewriting their brains. We are manufacturing dysfunction.
And then we hand them devices and media that amplify that dysfunction, while surrounding them with a culture that mocks God, glorifies death, and celebrates nihilism.
This Is Not a Gun Crisis
This is a pharmaceutical crisis. The rise in school shootings is not the fault of American gun owners. It is the fault of a society that turned its children into patients instead of teaching them to be people. It is the fault of every institution that handed out pills instead of discipline, therapy instead of truth, and chemicals instead of Christ.
Until we face this reality, we will keep burying our children. We will keep watching the headlines roll by with one more mass shooting, one more lost soul, and one more community shattered by violence that did not need to happen.
The Solution Starts at Home
If we want to fix the problem, we must start by pulling our children out of the system that is poisoning them. Take back your authority as a parent. Say no to the prescription pad. Say yes to healing through nutrition, movement, prayer, community, and truth. Rebuild the mind through faith and family. Protect your children’s bodies from synthetic interference. And teach them to live with purpose instead of pills.
This is not a gun crisis. This is a chemical assault on the minds and bodies of our youth.
Until we say it out loud, it will only get worse.
