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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We are doing for the first time real studies to find out…”

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 00:31

A lot of those programs have been cut. Now, would you still consider gun violence a public health crisis? And. I certainly consider mass shootings a health crisis. And We are doing for the first time real studies to find out what the ideology of [mass shootings] is. And we're looking for the first time at psychiatric drugs. You know, these kind of mass shootings. People have had guns in this country forever. (00:31–00:37)

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