Absolutely laughing my ass off at that first link. You've got it backwards. That study says kids exposed to mass shootings become depressed and are prescribed antidepressants at higher rates than kids not exposed to mass shootings. It is absolutely not saying the kids doing the shootings are on SSRIs.https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7519390/
Here is the whole thing. the problem is they report any shooting of more than 3 people and within 5 miles of a school on this report which I would assume you realize aren't what we are talking about.... Drug dealers shooting each other 5 blocks from a school isn't the same thing. So they wiggle it down to only 23% or something by adding in all the gang violence.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...s-merits-federal-investigation-300601826.html
This is a pretty good link but the point will be whether you believe a kid going inside a school and shooting people is different than 2 gangs shooting a few people on a street a few blocks away. That is where the debate is skewed. Unfortunately this is one of those politicized things that we aren't going to look at because if it's proven then lots of people lose tons of money selling drugs to kids.
"We find that local exposure to fatal school shootings leads to persistent and significant increases in youth antidepressant use."
"We find that local exposure to fatal school shootings increases youth antidepressant use by 21.4% in the following 2 y."
The shootings are causing the depression, the depression is not causing the shootings. This is like basic reading comprehension.
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