Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to get to the bottom of whether there is a connection between video games and mass shootings in America.
On Tuesday, amid calls for his resignation, Kennedy and the Make America Healthy Again Commission held an hour-long event to discuss the committee’s report on children’s health. During the proceedings, Kennedy discussed the topic of mass shootings.
“Switzerland has a comparable number of guns as we do, and the last mass shooting they had was 23 years ago,” said Kennedy, 71. “We have a mass shooting every 23 hours.”
“There are many things that happened in the 1990’s that could explain these,” he added. “One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs... there could be connections with video games and social media.”
Kennedy concluded by noting the NIH is “