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Senator Dianne ‘Firearm’ Feinstein

Why California’s politically embattled senator is spotlighting gun control.

Senator Dianne ‘Firearm’ Feinstein
Senator Dianne Feinstein at the Canary Hotel (May 30, 2012)

In her rookie year in the U.S. Senate, Dianne Feinstein labored to pass a federal ban on assault weapons, to chuckles and condescension from Republican colleagues.

“So the gentle lady from California needs to become a little bit more familiar with firearms and their deadly characteristics,” one red-state worthy rose to mansplain, after she finished an impassioned floor speech.

Bitch, please.