Vice President Joe Biden during the Fireside Hangout (Screenshot/www.whitehouse.gov)

Vice President Joe Biden spoke about gun control during a "fireside GooglePlus hangout" on Thursday, having a dialogue with bloggers, reporters and school administrators and calling attention to a new program being intiated by the federal government.

The program, Project Aware, would provide teachers with more resources in recognizing students who have emotional instability or mental illness.

"The first and most important thing is to engage and come up with ways to prevent children who are at risk from falling into a circumstance- whatever mental, emotional problems they have- before they metastasize into problems," said Vice President Biden.

The program is still in its proposal phases and is anticipated to cost $40 million. Biden also said that the Affordable Care Act– or Obamacare– would also provide affordable mental health care to young Americans.

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Along with the Project Aware training, Biden said schools would have the option of increasing security measures.

"The last thing we need to do is arm school teachers and administration, but we do have options for schools to have a resource officer- armed or unarmed- like community policing.

Schools would have the option of either hiring one of these resource officers or hiring a school psychologist. Biden said 1,000 officers would be available. But he did emphasize that this program was not calling for armed guards in schools and that doing so "would be a terrible mistake."

"The whole idea is prevantative, to identify before the problem," he said.

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Biden, a gun-owner himself, also spoke about his personal views on gun control, saying he didn't like to think of these measures as "control" but rather as "gun safety."

"My interpretation of the Second Amendment is that it's an individual right, not a corporate right," he said. "It's everything from making sure you keep guns away from kids to making sure a bad guy doesn't make it through the registry to get a gun."

Biden concluded by encouraging citizens to make their requests known to their state congressman or congresswoman, regardless of whether they are for or against the proposed policies.

"Make your voices heard. This town listens when people stand up to speak," he said.

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