JOE BIDEN DOES NOT KNOW GUNS FROM EXCREMENT!

“Get a double-barreled shotgun. Have the shells in the 12 gauge shotgun. And I promise you — as I told my wife — we live in an area that’s in the woods and somewhat secluded. 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. I promise you whoever is coming in is not going to.’ 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.”

So spoke Vice President Joe Biden during an online town hall meeting February 19 sponsored by Facebook and Parents magazine in response to an emailed question about self-defense for women.

Obviously, Biden does not know guns from excrement! He must have watched too many Dirty Harry-type movies. Actually a woman is more likely to get blown away by the recoil of a 12 gauge shotgun than an intruder she is shooting at getting blown away if she even hits him.

Larry Pratt, Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, says Biden showed his “complete ignorance about the nature of shotguns and AR-15s. A shotgun is much more difficult to fire, much more difficult to hold and withstand its recoil than an AR-15, and for the vice president to suggest that a woman would be better off using a shotgun than an AR-15 shows that frankly, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

Unfortunately, despite Biden’s ignorance, Obama’s gun control proposals seem to be gaining some traction. A group of senators from both parties led by New York Democrat Chuck Schumer and Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn, and including West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin and Illinois Republican Mark Kirk, are close to an agreement on a measure that would expand criminal background checks to most private gun sales.

And despite the fact that California already has some of the country's toughest gun controls, a Field Poll conducted February 5-17 shows that, by a wide margin, Kookfornians believe it is more important to put new controls on gun ownership than to protect Second Amendment rights.