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Anti-Gun Self-Righteous Ignorance: Biden Edition

By John Tabin on 7.26.07 @ 6:36AM

Dan Reilly at The Politico gets a response from Joe Biden to Dave Weigel's interview with YouTube questioner Jared Townsend that I noted yesterday:

Biden even told The Crypt he would be happy to go hunting with Townsend, though the senator said he couldn't equal Townsend's firepower.

"All I have is a 20 gauge and a 10 gauge shot gun. It won't match his automatic weapon," Biden said.

Townsend's Bushmaster AR-15 is not an automatic weapon. It's a semiautomatic rifle. (Reilly gets that wrong, too.) And it does a lot less damage per trigger-pull than a 10-gauge shotgun.

Is it too much to ask for Biden to even attempt to understand what he proudly leads the charge in trying to regulate? Of course it is.

topics:
Joe Biden, NATO