"Yale professor's 'cherry-picking' sparks controversy in gun violence hearing"

A Senate hearing on gun crime between Republican Senator John Kennedy and Dr. Megan Ranney of the Yale School of Public Health sparked controversy as Kennedy accused Ranney of cherry-picking data to falsely portray Republican-controlled areas as having higher crime rates. Ranney compared Chicago to three red states, claiming they had higher firearm death rates, but critics pointed out that Chicago's gun homicide rate is much higher than those states per 100,000 people. The exchange highlighted the debate over crime statistics at the local level and the influence of political bias in framing data.