Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) left another leftist stunned by his scathing wit in an exchange with an anti-gun doctor from Yale, sending his critics into meltdown.
Kennedy bluntly called the “word salad” coming from Dr. Megan Ranney, dean of the Yale School of Public Health, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence after she tried to hit him with the number of gun deaths in their home state. .
Ranney has followed the leftist mantra of demanding a “public health approach” to curbing gun violence in the nation, claiming that the current “crisis” of high gun death rates can be avoided if guns are treated as a public health problem.
“Let me ask you a question: Why do you think Chicago has become the largest outdoor shooting range in the United States?” Kennedy asked the emergency physician who is currently at the Ivy League school in New Haven, Connecticut.
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“You think it's because of the citizens of Chicago who have no criminal records but have a gun at home for protection… Or do you think it's because of a finite group of criminals who have rap sheets as long as King's arm Kong?” added.
“So Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri actually have higher gun death rates, obviously there are…” Ranney began only to be interrupted by Kennedy who was looking for an answer to his question.
“So I don't live in Chicago. It's not my main research area,” replied the doctor.
“Don't you have an opinion on that?” the senator asked himself.
“I think there's easy access to firearms combined with environmental conditions and a lack of good education,” Ranney began without a response. “There are actually studies that show that when you use green vacant lots and fix up abandoned buildings in urban neighborhoods, you see a decrease in shootings and violence, as well as stress and depression in the neighborhoods around them.”
Kennedy dropped the truth bomb.
“No disrespect, doctor, but that sounds a lot like word salad to me,” he remarked.
Kennedy went on to give the doctor examples of progressive prosecutors who have intentionally not prosecuted gun crimes in Democratic cities, and asked for her opinion on several cases to which Ranney repeated that she was not a lawyer and “had no opinion.”
“You equated gun death to heart disease in your opening statement,” Kenndy continued. “What is a bigger public health problem?”
When Ranney confirmed that there are more deaths from heart disease than from guns in the nation, the senator asked, “Are you supporting a ban on fried foods?”
“Uh, sorry. How does that relate to…” a confused Ranney replied. “Again, I have not written or said that I support outlawing . . .”
“But you're a doctor, right?” Kennedy fired.
The left-wing media could hardly contain themselves, with MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski outraged by Kennedy, whom she he called considered “racist, elitist, condescending and misinformed”. Her husband and co-host Joe Scarborough criticized Kennedy for “insulting a woman” in one tweet reacting to the video clip and the facts were quickly reported.
State level homicide rates are very misleading. like mine @Patrimoni colleagues and I explained in our paper Blue City Murder Problem, crime is a localized phenomenon.https://t.co/csU65jpqpg
And guess what? Take the blue cities out of the red states…and murder rates drop. https://t.co/ril5jqYniX
— Zack Smith (@tzsmith) November 29, 2023
John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, wanted to know “why do you choose just a couple of states to compare?”
“Is this how public health researchers investigate? Why not look at local crime rates where police policies are determined and where prosecutors and judges are almost always selected? asked X.
.@meganranney i @therecount, why choose only a couple of states to compare? Is it like that #public health do researchers research? Why not look at the local crime rates where police policies are determined and where DAs and judges are almost always selected?
– John R. Lott Jr. (@JohnRLottJr) November 28, 2023
“Anybody knows that law enforcement is overwhelmingly a local issue,” Lott said Fox News Digital. “How much money you spend on the police, what the police policies are going to be decided locally. District attorneys are almost always elected locally. Judges are almost always elected locally. Who gets arrested, who gets charged, how you prosecute cases and the judges who make the sentencing decisions are local decisions.”
“That's what public health officials do all the time. They focus only on gun deaths,” Lott added, calling out Ranney for using the term “gun death rates.”
“To me, it's just sloppy statistical work by these public health people,” he said, adding that “it's pretty clear that people like Megan want to go and ban gun ownership.”
“She's supposed to be an academic and I just think it shows a political bias to selectively pick a couple of states,” she said.
Ranney responded in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying, “Mississippi, Louisiana, and New Mexico are the states with the highest death rates; I mentioned Missouri (which is also in the top 10) simply because I knew the rates of St. Louis homicides are second only to New Orleans.”
“I absolutely believe it's worth looking at death and injury data across the board, and as I mentioned in my testimony, Americans deserve to have access to high-quality data on injuries of all types,” he said Ranney. “I'm a public health professional, not a criminologist, so I think of data in terms of injury.”
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