Generation Kill

So as the country mourns yet another school shooting one must ask, where did we go wrong?
We have an entire generation that has been raised with the possibility that they will not come home from school one day. It began when they were just in middle school in the mid 1990s with such shootings as the one that occurred at a middle school in Mount Vernon, Washington. Years later when this generation was in high school more shootings occurred bringing horrific tragedies to such communities as Littleton, Colorado, with the Columbine shootings. Now this same generation carries the violence to Universities like what just happened at Virginia Tech.
I am not now nor have I ever been a fan of guns and I do believe that stricter control must be taken by the government, but I will not lay blame of these kids committing murder solely on the gun industry, nor will I blame video games, music or movies. I will not blame any of these popular scape goats because while ALL kids from this generation have been exposed to these very same items, not all kids are killing their friends and families.
Instead I would like anyone reading my blog to consider this. In the 1970s hyperactivity in children was to be expected and almost encouraged, it was a faze and not labeled as ADD or ADHD. At this same time depression in teens while a concern was not treated with medications. In the 1970s parents worried about the illegal drugs their kids were getting strung out on so in the 1980s Mrs. Reagan started the "Just Say NO!" campaign and as a nation and a world we began feeding our kids a different kind of drug, one that was suppose to cure what ailed them. These drugs now referred to as psych meds, calmed the hyperactive, cheered the depressed and robbed a generation of FEELING!
Not only were we busy medicating our youth we began shortening their childhood, experts told us we must not punish we must treat them as people and let them have opinions, which was great in theory and I do believe this can work, however in doing this we managed to take away two important lessons children need to be taught; (1) there are consequences to our actions, and (2) we must take responsibility for our actions.
So now we have a bunch of kids who never had a real emotion, hopped up on psych meds, that never learned consequences or personal responsibility and they are killing each other!
Just my opinion!