A former Obama administration official appeared on MSNBC on Monday and used Monday’s school shooting in Wisconsin as an excuse to attack Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his views on vaccines.

An unidentified gunman killed two people at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, then killed himself. Dr. Kavita Patel told MSNBC host Chris Jansing that guns are a “public health crisis” before attacking President Kennedy’s nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Patel provided He worked in the Obama White House as Director of Policy in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement. (Related article: ‘This can’t happen’: MSNBC guest Nicole Wallace goes off the rails after President Trump nominates RFK Jr. to HHS)

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“First responders know this better than anyone. They’re not just the first on the scene, but when there’s a shooting like this, I’ve been in the emergency room waiting for people. But I haven’t heard back from them,” Patel said. “Because…nobody is saved, but when you look at the aftermath of violence, Chris, as we’ve seen, the ability to manufacture guns has increased, ammunition has become easier to obtain, states have An uneven pattern of laws depending on what they say, and, let’s be honest, a culture of violence. I’m with my 10-year-old son watching a video game his friends are playing. is normalizing much of this violence.”

“And I want to go back to American health care policy, which is terrible, but whether there are guns in the home, how they are stored safely, whether there are children in the family, It’s a reminder that we always need to screen our patients about what they’re doing when other people are around. Children visit their homes,” Patel said. Ta. “Some parents said, ‘Should I ask the other parents about the guns in the home?'” I said they should. It should be a checklist and you don’t even have to think about it, but it’s part of what we’re talking about. ”

President-elect Donald Trump announced in November that he would nominate Kennedy for Secretary of Health and Human Services. President Kennedy has questioned in the past whether vaccines cause autism, a view popularized by an unreliable study that was retracted by The Lancet in 2010.

“These are not just policies that have to be enacted at the local level. These need to be implemented at the federal level,” Patel said. “And just like we’re talking about potentially the secretary of HHS, we’re talking about people who will be in leadership positions. When we talk about vaccines, they They don’t even support the science. How can we rely on them to support the science on gun violence when it’s literally happening right before our eyes and it’s tragic? Is that so?”

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