GOP Senator Embarrassed by Expert During Gun Violence Hearing
GOP Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) was reminded of his own home-state statistics after a question backfired during the senate judiciary committee’s hearing on gun violence Tuesday.
Kennedy asked expert witness Dr. Megan Ranney from Yale’s School of Public Health why Chicago “has become America’s largest outdoor shooting range,” adding “do you think it’s because of Chicago citizens who have no criminal record but who have a gun in their home or perhaps for hunting or do you think it is because of a finite group of criminals who have rap sheets as long as king kong’s arm?”
Ranney clapped back saying, “Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri actually have higher firearm death rates.”