There’s always the problem of assuming a causal relationship instead of simply a correlative relationship.
Those who have mental problems are more likely to do something egregious,
AND they are most likely to be on pysch meds.
I wouldn’t want to participate in this, but,
you’d need an experiment where a mentally healthy set of people were on the pysch meds to see if they were more likely to do deeds such as these,
AND you’d need a set of mentally ill that weren’t on the meds.
Basically, you’d need 4 combinations of groups, with the control group being non-ill, non-medicated.
True, my comment was unscientific, but to my knowledge, most or all of the high profile kids doing terrible things with guns cases have involved psych meds. I have someone in my family, a young child that is on that stuff. Poor kid is a zombie. He wasn’t before he started being fed that stuff. I can think of better explanations for his acting out than needing psychiatric medication.
I don’t remember having big incidents like those or psych meds for children back in the day.
I think that this bears looking into by a truly independent body that is outside of the influence of anybody with a stake in the issue.