WASHINGTON (AP) — Curbing guns can’t ensure an end to mass slayings like December’s killings of 20 first-graders in Newtown, Conn., but it will reduce firearm deaths, Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday.

Biden said lawmakers can take steps “that have virtually zero impact on your Second Amendment right to own a weapon for both self-defense and recreation but can save some lives.” Doing that, he said, “seems to be a no-brainer.”