Dem Sen. Dianne Feinstein caught in big lie about school shootings at Kavanaugh hearing

As the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Brett Kavanaugh continued Wednesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., reminded America that she is utterly ignorant about guns and will lie to advance the anti-gun agenda.

In one exchange with Kavanaugh on his dissent arguing that the D.C. assault weapons ban was unconstitutional, Feinstein attempted to assert that semi-automatic weapons are not "in common use" in America. Taken slightly aback, Kavanaugh attempted to explain to Feinstein that semi-automatic weapons are "widely owned in the United States."

Note that any firearm that fires one bullet per trigger pull without an extra action in between trigger pulls is a semi-automatic weapon. Feinstein is making the wild claim that most gun owners don't use the semi-automatic guns (read: most guns) they own, and therefore government has a right to ban semi-automatics arbitrarily classified as "assault weapons."

Later, Feinstein incredibly claimed that "assault weapons" have been used in "hundreds of school shootings" in America.

FEINSTEIN: How do you reconcile your opposition to regulating assault weapons with the hundreds of school shootings involving assault weapons?

KAVANAUGH: I too am opposed to school shootings. But as a judge, my job was to follow the 2nd amendment opinion of the Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/9oMHwE6Uhs

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 5, 2018

That is not true, as CRTV director of engagement Jason Howerton pointed out on Twitter.

Statista collected those statistics from a database of mass shooting incidents compiled by Mother Jones, a left-wing nonprofit. The database catalogues U.S. mass shootings from 1982 to 2018 and was last updated on June 28, 2018. There are 102 catalogued shooting incidents, and not every one of them is a school shooting, so based on research from the Left alone, Feinstein's "hundreds of school shootings" claim is a lie. She outright lied in this confirmation hearing to turn public opinion against Kavanaugh's previous rulings.

Despicable.

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