Joe Biden’s Felony Self-Defense Advice
“A reasonable person would find the threat to be both life-threatening and immediate.”
But that isn’t at all the situation that Vice President Biden describes when he proscribes the double-barrel discharge of a lethal weapon.
He’s describing a situation where there is no immediate threat, nor a life-threatening event.
We know there is no immediate threat, because there is enough time for Mrs. Biden to:
- move from wherever she is in the house to the gun safe
- unlock the gun safe
- unlock the ammunition container
- retrieve the shotgun
- load the shotgun
- walk across the room or rooms
- open the exterior door
- walk outside onto the balcony
- shoulder the firearm
- fire two random shots
There is no identified threat in this circumstance, so it cannot easily meet the “life-threatening” portion of the test. Likewise, if there is time to walk unimpeded onto the balcony and fire warning shots, there is no “immediate threat.”
Time and time and time again, homeowners have been arrested tried, and convicted of felonies for doing precisely what the Vice President advises.
In New Hampshire, Dallas Fleming was arrested for firing a warning shot into the ground. He has been charged with a felony count of reckless conduct. He faces up to seven years in prison for firing a single warning shot.
In New York, George Grier fired four warning shots into the ground as a group of up to 20 suspected MS-13 gang members gathered outside his home verbally threatened his family. He faces felony charges of reckless endangerment.
In Florida, Marissa Alexander has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for events that arose after she fired a warning shot into the wall.
The list of arrests and convictions goes on and on.
Following Vice President advice to fire warning shots will likely get you arrested on felony charges. Firing randomly — Biden didn’t even state the shots should be fired into a safe direction — could get those charges upgraded to assault with a deadly weapon or possibly manslaughter if those shots fired into the air in the dark hits and kills an innocent victim like Rachel Yoder.
Vice President Biden has given defensive gun use advice that may put those who follow it behind bars with a felony conviction. Is he remotely competent to be driving national gun policy?
I'm an NRA member, gun owner and believe strongly in the right to self defense but I don't believe in warning shots. if you are in a position where you need to pull a gun you had better be ready to make every shot count. To me, use of a firearm is a last resort to save a life, either your own or another person in danger. A warning shot is an accident waiting to happen. Even firing into the ground could cause a ricochet if it happens to hit a rock.
I'm an NRA member, gun owner and believe strongly in the right to self defense but I don't believe in warning shots. if you are in a position where you need to pull a gun you had better be ready to make every shot count. To me, use of a firearm is a last resort to save a life, either your own or another person in danger. A warning shot is an accident waiting to happen. Even firing into the ground could cause a ricochet if it happens to hit a rock.
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well, you get the basic gist, do you not ?
Since there is virtually nothing worth viewing on the Comedy Channel and Joe spits out these sorts of witticisims so frequently , we're back to laugh-a-minute territory.
Speaking for Myself, I am a big proponent of 'taking pleasure where you find it' and Ol' Unca' Joe never disappoints.
Pity the person who has to check his diaper for leakage. Puddles and flotsam everywhere he goes, and only so many wipes can be carried........
well, you get the basic gist, do you not ?
Since there is virtually nothing worth viewing on the Comedy Channel and Joe spits out these sorts of witticisims so frequently , we're back to laugh-a-minute territory.
Speaking for Myself, I am a big proponent of 'taking pleasure where you find it' and Ol' Unca' Joe never disappoints.
Pity the person who has to check his diaper for leakage. Puddles and flotsam everywhere he goes, and only so many wipes can be carried........
Who's the biggest nut in Washington. Surely Joe Biden is in the running, but the biggest to me is also the one who's the biggest hypocrite, Barack Obama.
And what a hypocrite he is.
Obama walks military assault weapons to Mexico cartels that end up killing men, women and children.
Then Obama's executive order stonewalls attempts to find out why this happened.
Then Obama goes after the second amendment to stop willy nilly guns going into the wrong hands.
It's a disgrace that anyone voted for this puke.
Obama is a traitor, a liar and a totalitarian out to destroy American.
Obama wants to take guns out of law abiding citizen hands, who possess them as their right under the Constitution.
Next to the word, hypocrite in the dictionary should be... (show more)
Who's the biggest nut in Washington. Surely Joe Biden is in the running, but the biggest to me is also the one who's the biggest hypocrite, Barack Obama.
And what a hypocrite he is.
Obama walks military assault weapons to Mexico cartels that end up killing men, women and children.
Then Obama's executive order stonewalls attempts to find out why this happened.
Then Obama goes after the second amendment to stop willy nilly guns going into the wrong hands.
It's a disgrace that anyone voted for this puke.
Obama is a traitor, a liar and a totalitarian out to destroy American.
Obama wants to take guns out of law abiding citizen hands, who possess them as their right under the Constitution.
Next to the word, hypocrite in the dictionary should be Obama's picture. (show less)