Joe Biden Has Advice for Gun Owners

Says they should buy a shotgun for protection, not a high-capacity weapon

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Americans don't need high-capacity weapons to protect themselves, but if they want a weapon for protection, "Buy a shotgun," Vice President Joe Biden said.

"If you want to protect yourself, get a double-barreled shotgun," Biden said during a live town hall on Facebook hosted by Parents magazine.

Comments

[Brandybuck]

So the Second Amendment only applies to shotguns?

[Free Society]

The right to keep and bear double barreled shotguns shall not be infringed. That is until we've banned everything else, then the right to keep air rifles will not be infringed, until we infringe on that too.

[Richard McCargar]

Shotguns are more deadly at close range than an "assault-style" AR-15 rifle.

In a single 00 shotgun shell, there are 8-9 pellets each .33" (8.4 mm) in size. It requires a single trigger pull to shoot a minimum of 8 pellets/rounds/projectiles.

In a single round of an AR-15, you fire a single .223" (5.56mm) projectile per trigger pull.

If they don't understand this, they have no business discussing the issue.

If they do understand this, and go after so-called "assault-style" weapons, we know their actual motive is to disarm us.