“Wow” Kennedy Visibly Taken Aback After Witness: Shouldn’t Be Judged “For The Rest Of Their Lives”

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on “The Gun Violence Epidemic: A Public Health Crisis,” during which Kennedy pressed Dr. Franklin N. Cosey-Gay and other witnesses who called for more gun control legislation testified. “You said no one should be judged by the worst thing they have done in their lives,” Kennedy said to Cosey-Gay, “If one of these young doctors sitting behind you, god forbid, walks out on the streets of Washington, D.C., and is raped or sodomized, you don‘t think the rapist should be judged?”

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“I don‘t think it should be terminal, it shouldn’t be for the rest of their lives,” Cosey-Gay responded. “You think we should forgive them and not give them any punishment?” Kennedy asked. “You think nobody is responsible for their actions?” “I believe in responsibility, but I believe in forgiveness,” Cosey-Gay said. “Wow,” Kennedy responded.

Cosey-Gay, the Director of Violence Recovery Program at University of Chicago Medicine’s Urban Health Initiative since November 2021, according to the University of Chicago website, called for so-called “hospital-based violence intervention programs” in his written testimony.

Kennedy also pressed another witness, Dr. Megan Ranney, dean of the Yale School of Public Health, over failures to enforce laws currently on the books, pointing to Philadelphia District Attorney Len Krasner’s refusal to prosecute 47% of illegal gun possession cases.

“Wow”: Sen Kennedy Visibly Taken Aback After Witness Says: Shouldn’t Be Judged “For The Rest Of Their Lives”

Key Points

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on “The Gun Violence Epidemic: A Public Health Crisis,” during which Kennedy pressed Dr

• Cosey-Gay and other witnesses who called for more gun control legislation testified
• “You said no one should be judged by the worst thing they have done in their lives,” Kennedy said to Cosey-Gay, “If one of these young doctors sitting behind you, god forbid, walks out on the streets of Washington, D
• , and is raped or sodomized, you don‘t think the rapist should be judged

Transcript Highlights

Transcribed from the video audio:

• You said that no one should be judged by the worst thing they have done in their lives
• If one of these young doctors sitting behind you, God forbid walks out on the streets of Washington, DC, and is raped or sodomized, you don’t think the rapist should be judged
• It shouldn’t be for the rest of their lives
• You think we should forgive them and not give them any punishment
• You think nobody’s responsible for their actions
• You equated gun deaths to heart disease in your opening statement
• So heart disease does kill more folks across the United States largely in the end of their lives
• Because fried foods contribute to heart disease, don’t they
• Again, I have not written or said that I support outlawing
• Have I said that I support outlawing anything in my testimony today