Biden on Self-Defense: Fire a Shotgun in the Air
To the list of idiotic things to do with a shotgun add "give away your position to the bad guy after you have emptied the chambers"
Smart choice: Remington 300 Auto with the sear pin filed down pointed AT the bad guy when you fire the warning shots.
Biden on Self-Defense: Fire a Shotgun in the Air
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:Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the book “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America” (Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013).
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.
Leave it to Joe Biden to repeatedly undermine his own gun control case – and to get basic self-defense with a shotgun wrong.
1 comment:
ErikedbMr. Shapiro, thanks for this article. You are certainly right about Mr. Biden's inept (again) comments. As you most helpfully point out, Biden's opinion on defense seems (again) firmly grounded in ignorance and fantasy, if not outright deception.
I certainly hope that his wife knows him well enough that she will do a little thinking of her own before following her husband's suggestions.
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