"Switzerland has a comparable number of guns as we do, and the last mass shooting they had was 23 years ago. We're having mass shootings every 23 hours. There are many, many things that happened in the 1990s that could explain these. One is dependence on psychiatric drugs which is, in our country, is unlike any other country in the world. There could be connections with video games, with social media."
"Prior to the start of President Donald Trump's second term in office when Kennedy was still running his own presidential campaign Kennedy blamed mass shootings on antidepressants and video games in an interview on a Turkish show in January 2024. In response to the school shooting in Minneapolis, Kennedy said he was opening an investigation into the connection between shootings and medication."
Violent video games, social media, and high dependence on psychiatric drugs are proposed as potential contributors to the high frequency of mass shootings in the United States. Switzerland has a comparable number of guns but experienced its last mass shooting 23 years ago, while the United States averages mass shootings roughly every 23 hours. A meeting of a commission focused on improving children’s health addressed strategies to protect children from gun violence. Previous public statements attributed mass shootings to antidepressants and video games and initiated an investigation into links between medication and shootings, prompting congressional pushback and public dispute.
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