RFK Jr. is an Assclown: Blames School Shootings on Video Games

I don’t think I’ve called a politician an assclown in a long time. And oh boy, is this guy the assiest of clowns. You’d think with this administration I’ve done it more frequently, yet here we are.

Anyway, this story actually broke before the Evergreen High School shooting, but it’s too ridiculous not to address. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., our so-called Secretary of Health and Human Services, is an assclown. And I mean that in the fullest, most clown shoes sense of the word. How in the hell is this idiot in charge of the nation’s health? This is a man who’s not only a longtime conspiracy theorist but also a longtime heroin addict, who’s claimed everything from vaccines causing autism to Wi-Fi causing ‘leaky brain,’ that fluoride lowers IQ, that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, that COVID was ‘ethnically targeted,’ and that airplane chemtrails are real. Yet somehow this is the guy dictating policy on American public health.

At his latest little circus of a press briefing, Kennedy said guns aren’t the cause of school shootings. No, according to him it’s antidepressants, video games, and social media. That’s nothing new from him because he’s been harping on antidepressants for years. But let’s be clear. There’s no evidence whatsoever that antidepressants cause violence. In fact, SSRIs have anti-violence properties. As actual medical professionals point out, people with untreated serious mental illness are more likely to hurt themselves or be victimized than to hurt others. The actual numbers are staggering. 8.3% of adults had a major depressive episode in 2021, and among 18- to 25-year-olds, the rate jumps to 18.6%. Prescriptions have risen because more people need help. Between 2016 and 2022, the antidepressant dispensing rate for young people increased 66.3%. That’s not a cause for panic; that’s a reflection of more people finally getting treatment.

And then we get to video games. Haven’t we been here before? This is the same garbage that was thrown at Mortal Kombat in the ’90s, Doom after Columbine, and Grand Theft Auto in the 2000s. Yet no matter how many studies are done, the result is the same. There is no link between violent video games and real-world shootings. Personally, I’ve been playing video games since the 1970s. I’ve blown up pixels in Space Invaders, fragged opponents in Quake, and dropped nukes in strategy games. I’ve never picked up a gun in anger, never stockpiled an arsenal. Millions of gamers are in the same boat. The scapegoating is laughable if it weren’t so damn dangerous.

Kennedy also trotted out that tired nostalgic line about how in his day kids brought guns to school for gun clubs and nobody got hurt. Let’s set the record straight. Yes, schools had rifle clubs in the mid-20th century, but those kids were using .22 caliber bolt-action rifles. Those guns were single-shot or had tiny 5-round magazines that were used under supervision on indoor ranges. That’s a far cry from an AR-15 with a 30-round detachable magazine, capable of a far higher rate of fire and much quicker reloads. Pretending those are the same thing is dishonest at best, outright stupid at worst.

And why do today’s kids have access to guns like the AR-15 in the first place? Because Congress failed to renew the Assault Weapons Ban in 2004, and because of the idiot parents who buy these weapons for their kids or leave them unsecured at home. We’ve created a culture where teenagers can arm themselves like soldiers, then wonder why school shootings have become almost routine.

The truth is that since 2016, we’ve seen a surge in school shootings not because of Prozac, not because of Call of Duty, not because of TikTok, but because people like Kennedy and the administration he serves have fueled a wave of nihilism in young people. When kids see no future, no hope, and no stability, when all they see is corruption and collapse, some of them lash out in the worst possible way. That’s the ugly reality.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can keep babbling about video games and antidepressants, but the blood on the floors of America’s schools isn’t from PlayStation discs or Prozac bottles. It’s from bullets that were fired from guns that should have never been in teenagers’ hands to begin with.

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