-By Warner Todd Huston
Before they had any facts at all, a handful of liberals in politics and the media immediately jumped on TV using the Navy Yard shooting to blame so-called “assault rifles,” and the AR-15 in particular, and others used the crime to push their political ideology. As it turned out, though, there was no AR-15 used by the shooter. In fact, he didn’t even own one.
Before the FBI and local officials reported that the incident was over and the murderer was dead, liberals were running at lightening speed to find a TV camera or someone in the media in order to use the incident for their own political purposes.
Chief among them was Senator Dianne Feinstein who jumped to blame so-called assault rifles for the attack. Feinstein rushed out a statement to scold Congress for “shirking its duty” to outlaw guns and undermine the Second Amendment.
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Exploiting Crime: Liberals Blame Guns, One NOT Even Used in Navy Yard Shooting”