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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “It's happening in our country. It's not happening around the…”

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

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RFK Jr. Asked Straight-Up If Gun Violence Is A 'Public Health Crisis' After Minneapolis Shooting

Published | Video Starts at 01:13

So there's never been a time in America in the history of humanity, and people walked into a crowd, into a church or a movie theater or a school or a crowd of standards and just started randomly shooting. It's happening in our country. It's not happening around the world. And there are many other countries that have comparable levels of guns that we have in this country. We had comparable levels in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, and people weren't doing that. (01:13–01:17)

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Asserts that random mass shootings are occurring in the U.S. but not globally.

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