From ABC news. Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Americans don’t need semi-automatic weapons to protect their homes because a couple of blasts from a shotgun will scare off intruders.
“Buy a shotgun, buy a shotgun,” the vice president encouraged those worried about defending themselves. He was speaking in an online video as part of a Facebook town hall hosted by Parents Magazine on the administration’s strategy for reducing gun violence, which he has led at the direction of President Barack Obama.
Biden said he keeps two shotguns and shells locked up at home and he’s told his wife, Jill, to use them if she needs protection. He presumably was speaking about before he became vice president, a position that gives the couple full-time Secret Service protection.
“I said, ‘Jill, if there’s ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony … take that double-barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house,'” Biden said. “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.”
Obviously Mr. Biden is not familiar with safe gun handling practices. He has advised his wife to “take that double-barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house”. This buffoon has Secret Service protection. Why would he tell his wife to pull out a shotgun and just fire two blasts. She could kill one of the people there to protect them. I don’t know about you, but I have no intention of taking self defense advice from a moron like Joe Biden.
OMG, surely our vice president, president, police chiefs and so one can not be that stupid.
Denial has NO survival value. They ARE that stupid.
I saw this video and could not believe that someone such as the Vice President had no clue what he was talking about. It seems to me that mostly everyone who want to get rid of these “Assault” weapons has absolutely no clue about firearms in the first place. That is problem number one. Secondly, Joe Biden taking about shotgun is easier to aim, you do not aim a shotgun, you point it. Third, if you have a double barrel shotgun and fire two shells.. that leaves you defenseless because you just shot the only 2 shell you had loaded, unless you can reload fast enough. Why do we have people that so high up there in government and they have no clue what they are talking about?
He and Obama should order the secret service to start carrying double barreled shot guns from now on, they should also give warning shots before shooting someone.
Just a Shotgun!
You’re sound asleep
when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door.
Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with
fear,you hear muffled whispers.
At least two people have broken
into your house and are moving your way.
With your heart pumping, you reach
down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.
You rack a shell into the chamber, then
inch toward the door and open it.
In the darkness, you make out two shadows.
One holds something that looks like a crowbar.
When the intruder brandishes it as if to
strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.
The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.
One writhes and screams while the
second man crawls to the front door and lurches
outside.
As you pick up the telephone to
call police, you know you’re in trouble.
In your country, most guns were outlawed
years before, and the few that are privately
owned are so stringently regulated as to make
them useless..
Yours was never registered.
Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died.
They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal
Possession of a Firearm.
When you talk
to your attorney, he tells you not to worry:
authorities will probably plea the case down to
manslaughter.
“What kind of sentence
will I get?” you ask.
“Only ten-to-twelve years,” he replies, as if that’s
nothing.
“Behave yourself, and you’ll be out in seven.”
The next day, the shooting is the lead story in
the local newspaper. Somehow, you’re
portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the
two men you shot are represented as choirboys.
Their friends and relatives can’t find
an unkind word to say about them..
Buried deep down in the article,
authorities acknowledge that both “victims” have
been arrested numerous times.
But the next day’s headlinesays it all:
“Lovable Rogue Son Didn’t Deserve to Die.”
The thieves have been transformed from
career criminals into Robin Hood-type
pranksters..
As the days wear on, the story takes wings.
The national mediapicks it up, then the
international media.
The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.
Your attorney says the thief is
preparing to sue you, and he’ll probably win.
The mediapublishes reports
that your home has been burglarized several
times in the past and that you’ve been critical
of local police for their lack of effort in
apprehending the suspects.
After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you
would be prepared next time.
The District Attorney uses this to allege that you
were lying in wait for the burglars.
A few months later, you go to trial.
The charges haven’t been reduced, as your lawyer had
so confidently predicted.
When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all
works against you..
Prosecutors paint a
picture of you as a mean, vengeful man.
It doesn’t take long for the jury to
convict you of all charges.
The judge sentences you to life in prison.
This case really happened.
On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England ,
killed one burglar and wounded a second.
In April, 2000, he was convicted and is
now serving a life term…
How did it become a crime to defend one’s own life in the
once great British Empire ?
It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.
This seemingly
reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors
or felons and established that handgun sales
were to be made only to those who had a license.
The Firearms Act of 1920expanded licensing to
include not only handguns but all firearms
except shotguns..
Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967outlawed the carrying
of any weapon by private citizens and mandated
the registration of all shotguns.
Momentum for total handgun
confiscation began in earnest after the
Hungerfordmass shooting in 1987.
Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a
Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets
shooting everyone he saw.
When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.
The British
public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of
“gun control”, demanded even tougher
restrictions.
(The seizure
of all privately owned handguns was the
objectiveeven though Ryan used
a rifle.)
Nine years later, at Dunblane ,
Scotland , Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic
weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a
public school.
For many years, the media
had portrayed all gun owners as mentally
unstable, or worse, criminals.
Now the presshad a real kook with
which to beat up law-abiding gun owners.
Day after day, week after week, the
mediagave up all pretense
of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all
handguns.
The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later,
sealed the fate of the few sidearms still owned
by private citizens.
During
the years in which the British government
incrementally took away most gun rights, the
notion that a citizen had the right to armed
self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.
Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to
people who were threatened, claiming that
self-defense was no longer considered a reason
to own a gun.
Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged
while the real criminals were released.
Indeed, after the Martin
shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as
saying,
“We cannot have people take the law
into their own hands.”
All of Martin’s neighbors had been robbed numerous times,
and several elderly people were severely
injured in beatings by young thugs who had no
fear of the consequences.
Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his
collection trashed or stolen by burglars.
When the Dunblane Inquiry
ended, citizens who owned handguns were given
three months to turn them over to local
authorities.
Being good British subjects,
most people obeyed the law.
The few who didn’t were visited by police and threatened
with ten-year prison sentences if they didn’t
comply.
Police later bragged that they’d
taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private
citizens.
How did the authorities know who had handguns?
The guns had been registered and licensed.
Kind of like cars.
Sound familiar?
WAKE UP AMERICA ; THIS IS
WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND
AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.
“…It does not require a majority to prevail, but
rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set
brush fires in people’s minds..”
–Samuel Adams
If you follow Biden’s advice – you’re felony stupid. Recklessly firing off two un-aimed rounds out a window can kill innocent people, regardless of how tactically unsound that approach is.
For once, I kind of sort of almost agree w/ Biden. People *that* stupid (i.e. HIM) should definitely not own guns!
Luckily, the average law-abiding gun owner is about 100 IQ points above that clown.
If Biden actually believes a double barrel shotgun is a better home defense tool than an AR-15, he is as stupid as a chicken.
LMAO! Wackjob Biden is at it again! How stupid can one person be?
I’m sure Sheriff Joe will show us how stupid a person can be!
He does it every week, personally.
Did Joe wear his orange hai and big flappy shoes when he blathered again?
The sad part is that he thinks he is the smart one and that we’re all stupid enough to believe what he says.
JACKASS