""One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs," RFK said, "which in our country is unlike any other country in the world.""
""There could be connections with video games, with social media,""
""overmedicating our kids""
""we had lots of guns when we were kids. We had gun clubs at our school!""
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Department of Health and Human Services secretary, suggested that a sudden rise in gun violence beginning in the 1990s stems from non-firearm causes. He named dependence on psychiatric drugs, video games, and social media as possible contributors and said the National Institutes of Health have initiated studies into a correlation between "overmedicating our kids" and gun violence. He dismissed firearms as the primary cause, saying "we had lots of guns when we were kids. We had gun clubs at our school!" Research, including a 2020 American Psychiatric Association report, found insufficient evidence for a causal link between violent video games and real-world violence.
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