FOXNews.com: I'D BE A 'SITTING DUCK':Mom Criticizes Biden's Gun Advice for Women

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I'D BE A 'SITTING DUCK':Mom Criticizes Biden's Gun Advice for Women Feb 23rd 2013, 18:06 The woman whom Vice President Biden urged this week to "buy a shotgun" for protection says the idea would likely backfire and suggested that the advice sounded sexist. Biden made the recommendation during a Facebook chat on Tuesday, saying he has advised wife Jill to stand on the deck of their rustic home and fire the family's double-barreled shotgun in the air, should she sense an intruder. "It was poor advice, and it comes off a little sexist," Kate Ernest, the woman who got the advice, told Fox News Channel on Friday. Said Biden: "You don't need an AR-15 — it's harder to aim, it's harder to use. You don't need 30 rounds to protect yourself. Buy a shotgun." Biden used the social media event to garner public support for President Obama's attempt to tighten federal guns laws, following a series of mass shootings. Among the recommendations are to ban assault weapons and high-capacity gun magazines. Ernest purportedly has a small cache of firearms that includes an AR-15. She said a double-barrel shotgun holds only two shells, which would make a shooter a "sitting duck" and "fumbling" to reload should somebody be attacking them. Ernest said Biden's advice also sounded like: "Let me tell you what you need versus arm yourself and protect yourself with what is necessary."

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