It would only be overshadowed by all the other bonkers conspiracy theories RFK Jr. pushes.

they are stupid enough to believe in Qanon postings, we might be surprised how many votes he gets from
disillusioned reQublicans which are many.

A sizeable number of them believe these insane assertions about vaccines and medications causing crime, just as much as MAGA does. Much of the anti-vax movement started on the left, in the equally off-kilter 'natural' health crowd.

the assault weapon ban was allowed to expire. 20 years ago this year.

for over 20 years now and I have managed not to shoot even 1 person. I also used to watch "violent" (Looney Tunes)cartoons and cop shows yet again I have not shot anyone or tried to drop an anvil on someone's head. People are always looking to scapegoat someone or something when they want to avoid the consequences of their own behavior, or they want to ignore the real contributing factors behind it.

Let's not forget the hilarious cat-on-mouse violence of Tom and Jerry. Despite my exposure, I have never whacked anyone with a sledge hammer or swallowed a bowling ball.

have a boulder dropped on him or have a stick of dynamite go off in his face and come back unharmed a few minutes later.

took two garbage can lids and crashed them into the sides of someone's head? Me neither.

someone told me they wanted their palm read.

Wasn't it more often mouse-on-cat violence?

RFK Jr. was referring to several studies that have reached similar conclusions to this one:

"According to PubMed {a publicly available online repository of medical journal articles}, there is no convincing evidence that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) cause violence or suicide. However, a 2016 systematic review of trials in healthy adult volunteers found that antidepressants can double the occurrence of events that can lead to suicide and violence. A 2006 review also found that placebo-controlled trials of antidepressants show an increased risk of aggressive behaviors, but these outcomes only apply to a small subset of patients."

Here's one study from Sweden (2020): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32475742/
Many more can be viewed by Googling "PubMed, SSRI, violence"

So it's not simply black-or-white. All medications have side-effects, and a subset of SSRI patients are at risk of aggressive behaviors.

it's the ridiculously easy access to assault-style weapons that cause these mass murders?


Doctors in other countries around the world prescribe these same drugs. What's the one item not available in these other countries? Easy access to weapons.

Put the blame for mass murders with military-style weapons where it belongs.

and so the SSRI angle has to be taken into consideration.

Because we need to make sure murderers have an out. It’s the meds. Right

Far more people not on anti-depressants are prone to committing suicide or engaging in violent acts than those who are on the meds.

So we should let people kill themselves and sometimes others to 'save' the far fewer people who suffer adverse affects from anti-depressants?

Yeah, that totes makes sense.

Why were there less mass shootings then?

Was either entirely zero, or close to it during that time period.

Funny how that works.

Or even better, according to Google. It’s a handy search term, but not an accurate attribution.

SSRIs have always had a risk of causing suicide ideation or violent behaviour in a quite small percentage of people taking them; however, nothing indicates that those side affects cause people to commit mass murder. Never mind establishing how that would work inside the brain.

The paper makes a leap that it does not and cannot back up. It looks at metadata and finds what it wants to find there, but it hasn't established a strong connection between the things it claims.

And that's the problem with so many of these meta-studies.

think that kids in other countries are not watching and playing video games? Compared to most of the other countries around the world, the US far exceeds in the number of gun related violence incidences. What do you suppose is the common denominator here? Guns! The Kennedy family is appalled and embarrassed by this lunatic!

As if any additional proof was needed.

He seems like the kind of gullible, dipshit who would be balls deep into Scientology.