Crowe Looks for ‘Links’ Between Medication, Mass Shootings

In April, Gov. Bill Lee signed into law Senate Bill 1146 , which requires testing the blood of mass shooters for drugs — including antidepressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), benzodiazepines and “gender-altering medications.”

Now the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Rusty Crowe (R-Johnson City), says he plans to “strengthen the law next session to ensure testing occurs whether a shooter is killed or captured and in cases where there are numerous wounded victims.”

Crowe’s announcement comes two days after a mass shooter at a Minnesota Catholic church and school killed two children — 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski — and wounded 17 others.

Democrats and others have called for gun reform in the wake of the attack. Instead, many Republican officials