Vice President Joe Biden says the killing of Trayvon Martin should inspire debate about Florida's gun laws, including the controversial "Stand Your Ground" statute.
"It's important that people be put in a position where their Second Amendment rights are protected, but that they also don't, as a consequence of the laws, unintendedly put themselves in harm's way," Biden said during an interview broadcast today on CBS' Face The Nation.
Biden, who once chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the killing of the 17-year-old Martin proves the need to balance public safety with gun legislation.
"The idea that there's this overwhelming additional security in the ownership and carrying concealed and deadly weapons," Biden said.
"I think it's the premise, not the constitutional right, but the premise that it makes people safer is one that I'm not so sure of," he said.
The vice president is star interview of the first hour-long version of Face The Nation.
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