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To: Les H who wrote (47363)8/29/2025 7:01:48 PM
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Minnesota senator tells RFK Jr. ‘stop peddling bulls---’ on mass shootings
by Colin Meyn and Dominick Mastrangelo - 08/28/25

Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith (D) blasted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday after he suggested psychiatric drugs given to children could partly be to blame for school shootings.

“I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do,” Smith wrote on the social platform X on Tuesday, just more than 24 hours after a deadly school shooting in Minneapolis. “Just shut up. Stop peddling bulls---. You should be fired.”

Kennedy has long argued selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a class of antidepressants that increase serotonin and lift mood, are overprescribed, particularly for children.

“Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Kennedy if his agency was looking into the possibility that psychiatric drugs used to treat gender dysphoria were partly to blame for mass shootings.

Robin Westman, the 23-year-old suspect in the Minnesota shooting that killed 2 children, was assigned male at birth and applied for a name change at 17 to reflect a female identity, according to court records. Some conservatives online have seized on Westman’s gender identity to portray transgender people as mentally ill.

The Hill
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