Apparently our illustrious vice president told a meeting of mayors in Washington DC yesterday that he heard the sound of the gunshots from a golf course during the Oct 2, 2002 shooting at the Amish Schoolhouse in Lancaster County, PA.
The only problem is, the closest golf course is 5 miles away and Biden wasn't there that day:
This is what he said:
Now we all know that you can't believe anything that comes out of Biden's mouth, we need to call them on the carpet about this.
The only problem is, the closest golf course is 5 miles away and Biden wasn't there that day:
Biden’s claim of brush with gun massacre questioned
By Dave Boyer
The Washington Times
Friday, January 18, 2013
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s claim that he heard the gunshots of a 2006 school massacre while playing golf is raising questions about his veracity or his memory.
Mr. Biden told a meeting of mayors in Washington Thursday that he was about a quarter-mile away from an Amish schoolhouse on Oct. 2, 2006, when a gunman shot and killed five students and wounded five others.
“I happened to be literally — probably, it turned out, to be a quarter of a mile [away] at an outing when I heard gunshots in the woods,” Mr. Biden recounted. “We didn’t know … we thought they were hunters.”
But a search of maps of the area in Lancaster County, Pa., shows the nearest golf course to the site of the shooting, Moccasin Run Golf Club, is about five miles away. Rodney King, the golf pro at Moccasin Run, said Friday he was working at the course on the day of the shooting and never saw Mr. Biden, who was then a U.S. senator.
“There’s a lot of things here that I find hard to believe,” Mr. King said. “I looked in my database, and he [Mr. Biden] is not in my database.”
Even if Mr. Biden had played at the course that day, Mr. King said, “It’s very far-fetched that he would have heard it.”
“I know he didn’t hear those gunshots,” Mr. King said. “They were inside the school. Even if they were outside, he wouldn’t have heard them.”
A spokeswoman for the vice president did not return a request seeking comment Friday. Mr. Biden told the story as he was describing for the mayors’ group the Obama administration’s efforts to enact new gun-control laws.
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This is what he said:
“I happened to be literally — probably, it turned out, to be a quarter of a mile [away] at an outing when I heard gunshots in the woods,” Mr. Biden recounted. “We didn’t know. … We thought they were hunters.”
The vice president, who owns two shotguns, apparently was on a golfing trip, although he didn’t specify the reason he was there.
“As I got back to the clubhouse of this outing and saw helicopters, it was a shooting that had just taken place in a small Amish … school just outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. So it’s not just big cities or well-to-do suburbs. It can happen anywhere.”
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Now we all know that you can't believe anything that comes out of Biden's mouth, we need to call them on the carpet about this.