{"id":9040,"date":"2013-01-25T12:23:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T12:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/25\/joe-biden-on-shotguns\/"},"modified":"2013-01-25T12:23:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T12:23:06","slug":"joe-biden-on-shotguns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/25\/joe-biden-on-shotguns\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden on Shotguns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Biden is a contemptible clown — did you watch the Veep debates? — but in this video<\/a> he says something that is approximately true.  In the wake of natural disaster or social unrest you are better off with a shotgun than with a semi-automatic rifle such as an AR-15, advises Joe.  Well, when it comes to home defense, the weapon of choice is the 12-gauge shotgun loaded with 00 (double-aught) buckshot.  This is what ex-cops and others in the know tell me. And as the good old boy proprietor of a gun shop once explained to me, "Buckshot has the power to separate the soul from the body."  If that isn't a reason to convince a metaphysician, what would be?<\/span><\/p>\n

Uncle Joe was making sense for a change: at close range in the heat of battle it is easier to take out a target with a shotgun than with a rifle.  And then there is the issue of penetration.  The .223 round of the AR-15 could  penetrate your wooden door and end up in your neighbor's dog — or worse.   You don't want that.  Primum non nocere<\/em>.   The nasty buckshot won't travel as far.  Or so I have been told.  But you might want to look into the 'penetration' debate for yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Uncle Joe fails to mention, however, that semi-auto rifles are better than shotguns when it comes to defending life, liberty, and property in a situation like that faced by the Korean shopkeepers during the L. A. riots.<\/span><\/p>\n

So get yourself one of each.  While supplies last and it's still legal.  (It goes without saying that no one should acquire one of these weapons, load it, and stick it under the bed.  You must get some instruction, practice regularly, and inform yourself about the law.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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