Witness Tangles with Senator Whitehouse: ‘You Are a Large Man . . . Not a Young Mother Stuck in Her House . . .’

Gayle Trotter, a fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, had a tense back-and-forth with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse today during the Senate’s hearings on gun violence. The two disagreed over Whitehouse’s insistence that he and other senators could ably determine which guns young mothers should use to defend themselves.