I bet DiFi has never touched a gun in her life
I don’t know if she still has it, but at one time Fineswine held a concealed-carry permit.
Either kind :)
Mmmmmmmm.....maybe if she caught her husband (who she helped get rich w/ her Senate office facilitating insider China deals) in a clinch w/ an Oriental cutie?
Oh, she has touched them, having photographs taken of her doing so in her ongoing efforts to ban as many of them as she can. She has or owns a gun herself, too.
What she hasn't experienced is being herself shot at. Or defending herself with firearms, alone and outnumbered. Or being mugged. Or suffering house invasion, car jacking, or your garden variety convenience store robbery. In the latter, all she can think of are the guns aimed at shopkeepers, but never acknowledgement of those aimed right back at the criminals (except for cops doing so).
Now she recommends shotguns. Maybe this is progress in the right direction, and we should coo at her, making pleasant noises to solidify what she just said...then work on getting her to revise and extend those comments.
Shotguns can be unwieldy in tight quarters, since short barrels have been deemed taboo. Pistol-grip rigs are too "scary" also. (I should have bought that stainless Mossberg 20 gauge cruiser for about $225 when I had the chance).
Handguns are quicker to draw out from beneath the cash register, Diane. Don't you want people to be able to protect themselves? But Diane, your own bodyguards carry handguns. Don't you have a California concealed carry permit, yourself Diane?
So WE change the subject away from scary looking "high-power" semi-auto rifles to handguns for a while, then to "high-power" bolt actions, which can have a LOT more down-range power than typical .223 AR variant. After pounding them on handgun possession as sadly enough, necessary equalizer (necessary to protect the innocent ---women and children too) then we go on to the idea most Americans should not be prohibited from possessing and carrying on their persons a handgun (unless we can openly carry shotguns and bolt-action rifles?) without there being just cause --like certifiable insanity, felony conviction involving use of force, or habitual criminal, etc.
One big problem with having only a shotgun to defend oneself against "terrorists", is that that leaves a person having to get within 35 or 40 yards. If they have guns (they'll get 'em somewhere, even if they have to smuggle them in concealed in bales of marijuana) why afford then that advantage? The cops searching for ONE skinny 19 yr old, inexperienced noOb, were geared up to the max. All we ask for, are at least basic minimums, for ourselves. Those minimums do not begin and end with blunderbusses.
I'll promise to put only 25 rnds in a 30 rnd mag, if that will help...but need the extra 5 rnds worth of empty space in the magazine to help extend mag-spring life.