By Emily Brindley, The Dallas Morning News (TNS)

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Thursday that he’s looking into psychiatric medication as a potential cause for American gun violence and mass shootings. The comments were a repetition of an unfounded assertion that Kennedy has made before, this time in the wake of a Minneapolis mass shooting that killed two children .

Kennedy’s comments came at the end of a Thursday press conference in Austin, Texas, where the health secretary sat alongside Gov. Greg Abbott to talk about rural health care. A reporter asked Kennedy if he considers gun violence to be a public health crisis.

“I certainly consider mass shootings a health crisis,” Kennedy responded. “And we are doing for the first time real studies to find out what the i

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