"Kate, if you want to protect yourself, get a double barreled shotgun," Biden responded. "I promise you, as I told my wife, we live in an area that's wooded and somewhat secluded. I said, Jill, if there's ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony here, walk out, put [up] that double barreled shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house."That advice is wrong on so many levels.
The vice president said that by firing two shotgun blasts, anyone who might be trying to break in would be scared off.
"You don't need an AR-15," he said. "Buy a shotgun! Buy a shotgun!"
First off, in a self-defense situation, the last thing you want to do is empty your gun by firing it into the air. If the bad dudes are of a mind to pursue the matter, you are now standing there, probably in the middle of the night, trying to fumble two new shells into your shotgun.
Second, if you live in a municipality, the cops are going to respond to about fifteen neighbors calling in "shots fired" calls, and what they are going to do is take you to jail. Because in damn near every incorporated area (cites, towns), it is illegal to shoot off a gun. "Gee, I thought I saw sumthin', ossifer" is going to be a lot less of a justification than "That guy who bled out all over my floor broke into my house". More to the point, northeastern states generally do not let you shoot at people in your yard. So ol' Kate would go to jail for that, as well, if she followed Biden's advice.
Third, anyone who thinks that a 12-gauge double barreled shotgun is easier to shoot than an AR-15 has probably never shot either one. A 12-gauge shotgun has a pretty damn good kick to it, especially if it's not an autoloader.
I highly suspect that those lining up to say "Biden is right" have likely never come closer to seeing a gun than looking at one in a cop's holster. For those who do have some time on a shooting range, it will be further evidence that this Administration has no idea what it is talking about.
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