Yahoo News reports
Are you looking
into buying an assault weapon for protection after a devastating natural
disaster (or the coming Zombie Apocalypse) plunges society into deadly
anarchy? You’ve got it all wrong, Vice President Joe Biden said
Thursday: Get yourself a shotgun.
Biden, doing a Google+ “hangout”
to promote President Barack Obama’s proposals for battling gun violence,
had been asked whether a new assault weapons ban might infringe on the
Second Amendment rights of those who want one “as a last line of
defense” to fend off looters after “some terrible natural disaster.”
“Guess what? A shotgun will keep
you a lot safer, a double-barreled shotgun, than the assault weapon in
somebody’s hands [who] doesn’t know how to use it, even one who does
know how to use it,” the outspoken vice president, a shotgun owner
himself, replied. “It’s harder to use an assault weapon to hit something
than it is a shotgun. You want to keep people away in an earthquake?
Buy some shotgun shells.”
Does that sound reasonable to you? A shotgun would be easier to aim and fire effectively, wouldn't it?