“It’s like saying because a large percentage of people who have heart attacks were also taking blood pressure medicines, the blood pressure medicines caused the heart attack.”
One difference...people were dying due too high blood pressure long before there were meds. People were NOT shooting into crowds, in near the present frequency, prior to us thinking that we could treat them, rather than simply locking them up.
Actually, shootings are on the decline.
A very cogent point. I cannot remember these many mass shootings, or hardly any, when growing up in the fifties and sixties before the introduction of ritalin and other psychotropic drugs that are commonly prescribed today.