Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has suggested that antidepressants and other medical drugs were driving transgender people to embark on mass shootings, adding to MAGA rage over this week’s Minneapolis tragedy.
In bizarre comments on Thursday morning, Kennedy also claimed gun violence in U.S. schools and churches was a new phenomenon—despite data showing mass shootings in these venues have been taking place for decades.
“There was no time in the past when people would walk into a church or a classroom and start shooting people,” Kennedy said on Fox & Friends.
“And it’s not really happening in other countries. It’s happening here and we need to look at all the potential culprits that might be contributing to that.”
The one “potential culprit” that Kennedy did not mention, however,