When all your knowledge of firearms comes from movies and cartoons.
Speaking at a church in Delaware, Biden ridiculously said that police should be trained to shoot at the legs of an assailants charging at them.
He said "we also have to fundamentally change the way police are trained.The idea that instead of standing there and teaching a cop when there's an unarmed person that's coming at them with a knife so they shoot him in the leg instead of in the heart, is a very different thing. There's a lot of different things that can change."
First off, shooting someone in the legs that is charging at you with a knife doesn’t necessarily stop the threat.This ain’t the movies.And not to mention how difficult it actually is.
As firearms trainer Rob Pincus told the Washington FreeBeacon, “legs move. It's much harder to hit a smaller moving target than it is to hit the chest.From a technical shooting skill standpoint, from a technical legal standpoint, it's not where we want to go at all.”
As Dana Loesch tweeted in response, “Biden clearly has zero experience with firearms, firearm law, or self defense — you don’t shoot unless lethal force is absolutely justified. His “shoot to wound” rhetoric is irresponsible, not unlike when he told people to just fire shotguns from their balconies.”
Of course back in 2013, Biden called on people wanting to defend their home to haphazardly fire warning shots.
He said then, “if you want to protect yourself, get a double-barreled shotgun.I promise you, as I told my wife, we live in an area that's wooded and somewhat secluded. I said, Jill, if there's ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony here, walk out, put [up] that double-barreled shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house."