North to idiotsville

Truth to power!

Sometimes, the political becomes the personal:

In the aftermath of another school shooting, this time at Santa Fe High School in Texas in which eleven families lost a child, Oliver North, the latest in a long line of idiots who have been installed as the President of the NRA, pronounced that the mass of school shootings that occur in America were caused by too many boys being on Ritalin.

As the parent of a child with ADHD, and one who has been dealing with the medications used to treat it for nearly nine years, I can assure you that Ritalin (or any other medication used to treat ADHD) is most certainly not the fucking cause of the shootings you fucking idiot.  Ritalin, and all other medicines used in the treatment of ADHD, is a stimulant that acts as a calming measure for hyperactivity and helps children (not just boys) to focus their thoughts better.  Although it's obvious to anyone who isn't an idiot that the cause of the multiple mass shootings at schools in the United States is that we have too easy access to guns, it's much more likely that the shooters were not on ADHD medication than it is that they were.

But I should have expected nothing less from the NRA, who in making its choice for its next President, selected a man who was convicted (later overturned on a technicality) for his crimes in the Iran-Contra scandal, and who, in all likelihood, was a traitor to his own country.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee