US Vice President Joe Biden has urged Americans who want to protect themselves to ‘buy a shotgun’. The 70-year-old, who led the national task-force on gun control after the Newtown school shooting, made the remark during a Tuesday Facebook town hall event with Parents Magazine.

A woman named Kate, asked Biden, “Do you believe that banning certain weapons and high capacity magazines will mean that law abiding citizens will then become more of a target to criminals as we will have no way to sufficiently protect ourselves?”