NRA's Oliver North Said Kavanaugh Was Accused Of Assault Because He Wants To Protect Gun Rights

In a video released on Monday, NRA president Oliver North weighed in on the sexual assault allegations recently made against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, both of which he has flatly denied. According to the NRA president, Kavanaugh's support for the Second Amendment is the reason why he is facing allegations from two different women.

North referred to a number of specific Democrats in the video clip, but his main point suggested that the party was drumming up allegations against Kavanaugh as a way to subvert the constitutionally protected right to bear arms. "A woman who wants to confiscate your firearms leaks an unsubstantiated accusation to smear a man because he believes in our Second Amendment," North said. He continued: 

"Politicians call a privileged senator who killed a woman, a lion, and now they smear Brett Kavanaugh as a threat to women. Since the election of Donald Trump, the character assassination of good Americans like Brett Kavanaugh by those with half his intellect and a fraction of his virtue, has been unconscionable."