Another stupid, hypocritical actor has some opinions on gun control he’d like to share. Here are some of my own.
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In an interview with Gulfnews.com, Liam Neeson spoke out against Americans owning guns in a bizarre commentary related to the terrorist attacks in France. Nevermind the fact that France has some of the strictest gun control, Neeson’s target is aimed at the United States.
“There are too many [bleeping] guns out there, especially in America.”
“I think the population is like, 320 million? There’s over 300 million guns, privately owned, in America. I think it’s a f**king disgrace. Every week now we are picking up a newspaper and seeing, ‘Yet another few kids have been killed in schools.’”
Neeson is the star of the popular Taken film series, where the star is prominently featured blasting people with high powered weaponry. When asked if he was being duplicitous, he denied it and said: “A character like Bryan Mills going out with guns and taking revenge: it’s fantasy. It’s in the movies, you know? I think it can give people a great release from stresses in life and all the rest of it, you know what I mean? It doesn’t mean [the viewers] are all going to go out and go, “Yeah, let’s get a gun!”
Neeson’s comments remind us of an article I wrote back in 2012 titled “Why do Hollywood actors demand gun bans while appearing in violent films“:
Gun bans are the ultimate in paternalism. Actors can privately profit from the glorification of the worst kind of violence while using their acting abilities in videos such as the one below to convince the public that they don’t support gun violence. They fool people into believing that they have the moral high ground in attempting to restrict second amendment rights. But undoubtedly some number from their cult of celebrity will follow. No matter how blatantly hypocritical a star is, many in their fan base will support any cause they champion for reasons they aren’t even fully aware.
Of course no matter what happens the government will still be allowed to use “assault rifles”. And criminals will still have them and be able to get them anytime from the black market. After all, banning something doesn’t mean it goes away. Banning something only makes the price go up. Similar to how banning drugs doesn’t eliminate them, it merely regulates the purchasing price and availability.
And we also should assume that these actors will expect there to be a “loophole” for private security guards to protect themselves of course. Liberal activists might be disappointed if they knew how fully armed private security agents can be for their favorite actors. Their disappointment would reside in the shadow of the hypocrisy that while many of them believe that the American government is guilty of heinous war crimes in Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay, that same government should be the only one with guns.
But for the rest of the proletariat? No guns for you. Self defense is for only for the elites now. Big government and Big Hollywood will protect us and look out for our health and personal safety from here on out. They are doing it for our own good.
Why should ordinary citizens ever require an assault rifle?
The reason is simple.
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