Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is breaking through the media silence on an uncomfortable truth: America may be fueling its own violence epidemic through psychiatric drugs pushed by Big Pharma.
RFK Jr. declared that for the first time, the federal government is conducting real studies to determine whether America’s sky-high dependence on psychiatric medications is tied directly to the surge in random, senseless shootings that have horrified communities coast to coast.
“I certainly consider mass shootings a health crisis. For the first time, we are doing real studies to find out what the ideology behind them is. We’re also looking, for the first time, at psychiatric drugs,” RFK Jr. said during a news conference in Texas on Thursday.
Kennedy pointed out that guns have been part of American life for centuries, but the phenomenon of mass random shootings is entirely modern.
He argues that America’s epidemic of violence may be fueled not by the Second Amendment, but by decades of reckless over-prescription of psychiatric drugs that carry deadly risks.
RFK Jr. stressed that psychiatric medications often carry black box warnings — the FDA’s strongest label — explicitly warning that they can cause “suicidal and homicidal ideation.”
Yet for years, any attempt to discuss the link between prescription drugs and mass shootings has been ridiculed or dismissed by the political class and the mainstream media.
RFK Jr.:
I certainly consider mass shootings a health crisis. For the first time, we are doing real studies to find out what the ideology behind them is. We’re also looking, for the first time, at psychiatric drugs.People have had guns in this country forever. When I was a kid, we had shooting clubs at our school. Kids—my classmates and others—would bring a .22 rifle, leave it in their cars, and park it in the lot. Nobody was shooting.
There has never been a time in America, or in the history of humanity, when people just walked into a crowd, a church, a movie theater, or a school, and started randomly shooting.
It’s happening in our country. It’s not happening around the world. Many other countries have comparable levels of guns to what we have. We had comparable levels in the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s—and people weren’t doing that. Something changed. It dramatically changed human behavior.
One of the culprits we need to examine is the fact that we are the most over-medicated nation in the world. A lot of those medications are psychiatric drugs that have black-box warnings—warnings of suicidal and homicidal ideation.
So we are doing those studies right now, for the first time, and we will have an answer.
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RFK JR. AFTER ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING: “One of the culprits we need to examine is whether the fact that we are the most over-medicated nation in the world, & a lot of those are psychiatric drugs that have black box warnings on them that warn of suicidal & homicidal ideation.” pic.twitter.com/qNPDT4oBt9
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 28, 2025
While appearing on Fox & Friends Thursday morning, Kennedy was also pressed on whether he would investigate the medications taken by the shooter, who authorities confirmed identified as transgender.
“We’re launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI [selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor] drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence.”
WATCH:
RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: “We’re launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence.” pic.twitter.com/e2HSIMuUwy
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 28, 2025
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