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RFK Jr. Faults Video Games, Antidepressants for Mass Shootings

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RFK Jr. Faults Video Games, Antidepressants for Mass Shootings

by Sandra Rhodes
April 4, 2024 at 10:49 am
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RFK Jr. Faults Video Games, Antidepressants for Mass Shootings

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 02: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visits "The Faulkner Focus"at Fox News Channel Studios on June 02, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running for president as an independent, is not immune for non-traditional theories and his latest on does not disappoint.

Critics have challenged Kennedy’s stance that guns are not the problem — antidepressants and video games are to blame for mass shootings in the U.S., according to the HuffPost.

Kennedy espoused these claims in a January interview with TRT World’s Tim Constantine and shared by Democratic strategist Keith Edwards on X, formerly Twitter.

Wow.@RobertKennedyJr suggested the mass shooting problem in America isn't from guns, but from anti-depressants and video games pic.twitter.com/CjHAF3Hf87

— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) April 3, 2024

Kennedy wants the National Institutes of Health to look into “the etiology” of gun violence, per the HuffPost.

“NIH needs to be studying them to see if there’s connections to some of the SSRI and psychiatric drugs people are taking or there’s connections to video games,” Kennedy said on “The Capitol Hill Show.”

“His campaign previously shared a clip of the interview that highlights a Mayo Clinic definition of SSRIs and cuts to footage of kids playing video games,” per the outlet.

A couple of news organizations have reported that, according to experts, there is no link between psychiatric drugs nor video games and mass shootings.

PolitiFact.com reported in 2019 that there is no link between psychiatric drugs and mass shootings, while CNBC reported there’s no evidence that video games cause mass shootings.

Several people spoke out against Kennedy’s theories, including Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg.

“Wow I had no idea America was the only country with anti-depressants and video games,” Hogg wrote on X.

Wow I had no idea America was the only country with anti-depressants and video games. https://t.co/T32eCMWrY8

— David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) April 4, 2024

Yeah dude. Switzerland has one of the highest rates of of firearms in the world, yet doesn't have the problems we do. RFK is right on the money, except it's not just video games. It's the lack of firearms education & training for all citizens that is the primary problem.

— EV_Trapper (@EV_Trapper) April 4, 2024

Not sure how many times I need to repeat this, but Robert Kennedy Jr is a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist. And he and his MAGA donors are trying to get Donald Trump elected. But we are going to stop them both. https://t.co/oMLNUcZ6SL

— Robert Garcia (@RobertGarcia) April 3, 2024

I grew up playing Zelda, while taking antidepressants, and I've never stabbed anybody with a Master Sword. pic.twitter.com/RMwRwbaRhx

— thee nasty rougarou in the machine (@theerougarou) April 3, 2024

Sorry for my language, but @RobertKennedyJr is a fucking idiot.

— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) April 4, 2024
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Sandra Rhodes

Sandra Rhodes

IJR, Contributor Writer She was a Story Editor for Indpendent Journal Review since November 2022 and has written for IJR since February 2024. She has been in the newspaper business in various capacities since 1998.

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