Frankly, we're surprised Senator Diane Feinstein said something this stupid. She's very impressive on paper and yet this is probably the stupidest quote we feature.
The Quote:
"When the gunman realizes nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in. That's just human nature."
Who Said It:
A democrat from California, Diane Feinstein was once named San Francisco's most effective Mayor. She was elected to the Senate in 1992 and reelected five times. In 2012, she received a record-breaking 7.86 million votes for Senate -- the most popular votes received by any U.S. Senate candidate in history. She was also the first woman to chair the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee.
At the time of her death in 2023, Feinstein was the oldest sitting U.S. senator and member of Congress. She was also the the longest-tenured female senator in history.
Context:
"In the ten years since the federal assault weapons ban expired, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has kept trying to renew the law, which she authored. In a press release this month honoring the 20th anniversary of the ban, she wrote, "The evidence is clear: the ban worked."
But gun violence experts say the exact opposite. "There is no compelling evidence that it saved lives," Duke University public policy experts Philip Cook and Kristin Goss wrote in their book 'The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know' "
