President Donald Trump’s pick to be the Pentagon's top health official today criticized as "insane" a civilian's access to semi-automatic weapons like the one used Sunday in the Texas church shooting.
"I'd also like to — and I may get in trouble with other members of the committee — just say, you know, how insane it is that in the United States of America a civilian can go out and buy ... a semi-automatic assault rifle like an AR-15, which apparently was the weapon that was used," Dean Winslow, a physician and retired Air Force colonel nominated to be the assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs, said during his Senate Armed Services confirmation hearing
