David Hogg makes a bizarre claim about AR-15s, and gets slapped down over it

By Carlos Garcia

Parkland massacre survivor and anti-NRA activist David Hogg made a bizarre claim about the AR-15 class of guns, and the reaction online was swift and brutal.

“You’re not defending yourself…”

The vocal gun control activist was responding to a video from the congressional hearings for the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court when he made the odd statement.

“The effective range of an AR-15 is 1600 feet for comparison your typical handgun is 75 feet if you’re shooting somebody from 1600 feet away you’re not defending yourself…,” he tweeted, “…you’re hunting.”

“Make the 2004 Massachusetts assault weapons ban federal law,” he added.

Hogg was responding to a video of an exchange between California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein and Kavanaugh.

“How do you reconcile what you’ve just said with the hundreds of school shootings using assault weapons that have taken place in recent history?” Feinstein asked. “How do you reconcile that?”

“Senator, of course the violence in schools is something we all detest and want to do something about and there’s a lots of efforts, I know underway to make schools safer,” Kavanaugh responded. “I know at my girl’s school they do a lot of things different than …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze