Dr. Jerome Adams is Indiana’s state health commissioner, an emergency room trauma surgeon, a gun owner, and President Trump’s nominee for the position of Surgeon General.while he easily moved through most of a hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, there was one tense moment in the hearing.
While he easily moved through most of a confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, there was one tense moment in the hearing.
The tension arose when left-wing, anti-gun Democrat Chris Murphy (D-CT) asked Dr. Jerome Adams what he would do about gun violence in America if he was to become the next Surgeon General? Murphy also wondered how Dr. Adams would deal with gun violence as a public health problem.
While it might seem odd that the question of “guns” would come up with the nominee for Surgeon General, the left has succeeded in pretending that