DAILY BEAST COLUMN: …After all, what elected official wouldn’t rather talk to actual voters than pesky reporters? And the White House is increasingly using technology to connect with the masses, pointedly bypassing the mainstream media in the process.
Turns out Biden came out with both barrels. At Tuesday’s Facebook event, sponsored by Parents magazine, a reader named Kate Earnest posed this loaded question: “Do you believe that banning certain weapons and high-capacity magazines will mean that law-abiding citizens will then become more of a target to criminals, as we will have no way to sufficiently protect ourselves?”
Biden laughed, saying he had never heard anyone at Parents magazine “ask these kinds of questions,” and suggested she get a shotgun. The veep said he had told his wife, “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…. 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.”… (more)
EDITOR: We cannot properly encapsulate this interesting article and recommend it be read in the whole. It goes on to question the willingness of the President to give interviews to knowledgeable reporters.
Incidentally, what Biden recommended to his wife was precisely the precaution we took when living in downtown Philadelphia during a period of national race riots in the late 1960s. No one wants to face a double barrel shotgun!
