> That's why school shootings pretty much never happened before the 1970s

School shootings didn't happen for multiple reasons that are not SSRIs:

  - Semi-automatic and automatic weapons weren't available to the public
  - There were no video games and few movies glorifying a lone gunman "getting revenge" on a society that spurned them (there movies about gangsters, or war movies)
  - There was no anti-American/facist "militia/tactical" cultural meme
  - There was not yet any widely known stories of suicide-by-cop and fame via mass-murder
  - The American cultural ethos had not yet turned cynical; once Vietnam and Nixon's betrayal happened, it was all downhill
  - We stopped locking up crazy people in insane asylums
  - Social isolation and urbanism increased population density and animosity

> That's why school shootings pretty much never happened before the 1970s

This claim is gonna need a lot more evidence.

SSRIs are a first line treatment across many EU countries too, yet we somehow manage.

man, to repeat this (obviously flawed) argument as your own... you are really down a very bad path of pernicious podcasts. reevaluate some values.

One: Correlation does not imply causation, two: SSRIs are available worldwide

Everything you said is here is wildly and completely inaccurate and seems to be based on fringe conspiracy theorist RFK Jr's thoroughly debunked lies.

The exact opposite is true. Countries with the highest SSRI use have the lowest mass shooting rates. The evidence doesn't lie. Politicians do.

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/10/rfk-jr-misleads-about-anti...