On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden appeared on a Facebook townhall, where he was asked a question about gun ownership by a female viewer from Parent Magazine. Biden’s suggestion: nobody needs an AR-15, especially women. Instead, he stated, “If you want to protect yourself, get a double-barrel shotgun.” In fact, Biden went further, describing his strategy for home defense:
I said, ‘Jill, if there’s ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony here … walk out and put that double-barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house.’ … You don’t need an AR-15 — it’s harder to aim, it’s harder to use, and in fact you don’t need 30 rounds to protect yourself. Buy a shotgun! Buy a shotgun!
There are a few problems with this. First, it is illegal to discharge a firearm in public in Delaware, as it is in virtually every state. Shooting a gun into the air would arguably not constitute self-defense and poses a threat to the public, especially since a slug would come down at some point.
Second, if you have a typical double-barreled shotgun, the gun only holds two shells. If you fire twice into the air, you have just disarmed yourself.
Third, shotguns are used in more murders every year in the United States than the rifles the left wants to ban.
Fourth, for Biden to suggest that women are incapable of handling AR-15s, even as the Obama administration pushes women into frontline military combat, is ridiculous to say the least.
Biden’s ‘self-defense’ suggestion and the implications behind it are truly bizarre. I can’t imagine behaving in such an irrational way if someone were threatening me in my own home. And betcha I’d want as many rounds as I could get.
Guess it takes a special kind of stupid to power that brain…
Gun safety rule number 4 – know your damned target
Can you imagine?
I can’t.
Apparently his past firing of a shotgun has damaged his brain or he would have known it is so much more brutal to fire a shotgun than an AR-15, a lot of women & men would be injured by the recoil of firing a 12Ga shotgun in close quarters – This man is an idiot and there is no way around it – I am beyond understanding how this country has put these two clowns in charge of what was once the greatest county in the world -
‘Once’.
That says it all…
Well, my home defense shotgun was a double barrel. Howsomever it is not the first shootin’ iron I would have grabbed, before the canoe wreck, that would have been one of the revolvers. Or, depending on the situation, the ’92 Winchester clone.
Of course now I am down to the German Shepherd and the Pug. Stupid canoe. And, if I ever hurt someone firing blind, Sheriff Joe would not testify at my trial.
Still, it doesn’t take long to load a double and if those two shots off the balcony were, say, number 8 birdshot, by the time they came down they wouldn’t break the skin.
Back in the day I got stung with birdshot in a melon patch. It hurt but none broke the skin and I didn’t even drop the wallermelon. But I sure ran faster!
I would grab a pistol… but I damn sure wouldn’t shoot it off into the distance. And I don’t have a dang balcony.
Precisely the reason why people need to be educated about guns and using them, particularly how and when NOT to. And an example of how some people are too stupid to be responsible with them.
Yep! Instead of being kept from firearms, we need everyone to go through safety courses, including children. Just my opinion, of course.
All these Democrats that want to change the laws need to start taking some courses – they do not have a clue in that head of theirs as to what is real or imagination – trying to outlaw all hollow point ammunition is just one example – they need to learn the difference between ball & hollow point – there will be so many more victims from ball ammo penetrating & bouncing off everything – apparently their hangouts do not have Billiard Tables that will show them how things travel in real life, walls, doors, people, etc…