Buy A Double Barrel Shotgun . . . ?

I just listened to our esteemed Vice President, Joe Biden, advise a woman to buy a double barrel shot gun if she wants to protect herself, and if she feels threatened, to take that shotgun outside and fire off two rounds. "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, " he said (1).  

I was shocked. 
But, what more should I expect to hear from a Vice President that apparently knows nothing about owning or using a gun. 

As a physician, who is also a certified rifle instructor, this is the last piece of advise I would expect to hear from our national leadership. 

The first rule of gun ownership is that you never fire the gun unless you intend to destroy or kill your target.  Encouraging someone to walk outside and "fire off two shots" as a warning is the most irresponsible comment I have ever heard from this man. 

Second, if the intruder continues to enters your home, which he probably will, you have now emptied your shotgun and it will take you at least 15-20 seconds to reload if you're not nervous.  

Third, firing your gun outside into the air within the city or town limits is illegal in most parts of the country and you will be charged and fined for that action alone. 

Most women I know prefer shooting an AR-15 to a shotgun, as most of them can't stabilize the shot gun when it is fired due to the large amount of recoil. It is apparent that Mr. Biden has never witnessed his wife or any other woman shoot either of them.

Why is he saying this?  It is the step-wise process of this administration trying to remove our second amendment rights. 

If you walk into or near the den of a bear to check out the den or to pet the cuddly little bear cub you find there, the nearby mother bear will attack and probably kill you. Everyone knows that this is not the bear's fault, it is your own carelessness or stupidity that is at fault. 

We accept this action as Natural Law, defined as "law or a specific principle held to be derived from nature and binding upon human society in the absence of or in addition to positive law" (2). Every animal in the world has an innate, instinctive, God given right to protect it's home and children. Every animal species will, at the risk of its own life, defend its home and children to the death.  

This administration, and many members of congress, are trying to legislate away Natural Law.  This comment from our Vice President is another demonstration of the State assuming that they are greater than Natural Law.  From the perspective of science, Natural Law applies to all species within the Animal Kingdom and you, I and all human beings (homosapiens) are part of the Animal Kingdom. 

If you or I walk into the bear den, it will rip you from limb to limb protecting its home and children. No one will fault the bear, because each of us knows that each animal has the right to defend its home and family.  The right to bear arms and the right to use those arms in defense of your home and children are not just constitutional.  Those rights were given by God or Nature's God, and cannot be taken away, they are instinctive. You try to tell a mother to do something against her instinctive values and see what happens. She has the right to protect her home, family and possessions in any way she needs.  If that means she feels the need to do that with a 30 round magazine, the State has no authority to remove that right. Hell hath no wrath like a woman scorned.  
Socialism is not my religion, government is not my church, and Barack Obama is not my god.

I recommend that if you feel the need to protect your home with a gun, then you should. However, you absolutely need to be trained to use it and store it properly and safely. 

Mr. Biden, I think you need to educate yourself and rethink your position. 

Brush Fires in our Minds . . .

You’re sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door.  Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.

At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.

With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.  You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it.

In the darkness, you make out two shadows. One holds something that looks like a crowbar.  When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.

The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.

As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in trouble.  In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless…Yours was never registered.

Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died.

They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.

When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry, the authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.

"What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.

"Only ten-to-twelve years," he replies, as if that's nothing. "Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven."

The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper.

Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys. Their friends and relatives can't find an unkind word to say about them. Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times.

But the next day's headline says it all:  "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die."  The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters. 

As the days wear on, the story takes wings.  The national media picks it up, then the international media.  The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.

Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll probably win.

The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects.  After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time.

The District Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.

A few months later, you go to trial.

The charges haven't been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently predicted.

When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works against you. Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man.

It doesn't take long for the jury to convict you of all charges. The judge sentences you to life in prison. . .

This case really happened.

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England , killed one burglar and wounded a second.

In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term.

How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British Empire ?  It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.  This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license.

The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns..

Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.

Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987. Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw. When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.

The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even tougher restrictions.  (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland , Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.  For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable or worse, criminals.  Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners. 

 
Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.  The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few sidearms still owned by private citizens.

During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.
Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.

Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.  Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying,
"We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."

All of Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences.  Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.

It didn't help. Gun related crimes rose to an all time high over the next 15 years peaking at over 24,000 incidents in 2003/04.

When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities.

Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law. The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply.

Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.

How did the authorities know who had handguns? The guns had been registered and licensed. Kind of like cars.  Has the brush fire been started in your mind ?

NRA ENSURES BLACKS HAVE GUNS

Great article by Ann Coulter about how the NRA was instrumental in protecting the rights of blacks to own guns and defend themselves.  This article includes a little known story about how the NRA and Second Amendment rights prevented a black physician and his wife from being lynched by the KKK. 

Read it here:
NEGROES WITH GUNS