You've got to agree that people who are already depressed (and are therefore likely to take those drugs) seem to be more likely to commit such terrible actions (whether or not they actually take drugs) than those who are fine, on an emotional basis. And since depressed people are likely to take drugs and if gunmen are likely to be depressed, it's only logical that gunmen are likely to take those drugs.
People who commit mass shootings are a terrible small sample size to extrapolate anything. Every obvious correlation could be coincidence (because of the small sample size), insignificant (like the fact that most gunmen ate bread), could indicate actual causation, could mean that both phenomena are (partly) caused by the same root cause (like being depressed increases a person's likelyhood to a) take drugs and b) become a gunman), etc.
I'm not ruling out that side effects of psychotropic drugs can contribute to insane decisions. But just because most gunmen took those drugs doesn't convince me either that they are the root cause.
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