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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “Countries like Switzerland have almost as many or comparable…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Club Random with Bill Maher

Published | Video Starts at 39:18

It happened. You know, it really started happening coterminous with the introduction of these drugs with Prozac and the other drugs. Countries like Switzerland have almost as many or comparable numbers of guns that we do. And the last mass shooting they've had was 21 years ago. We have one every, like, 21 hours. Oh, it's not. And then you Also add in 2010, when is that? When everybody got a smartphone. Yeah, that is also. (39:18–39:27)

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Asserts that Switzerland has comparable gun numbers to the U.S. but had its last mass shooting 21 years ago.

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