Actor Vince Vaughn says Americans should be allowed to carry firearms in public, including schools, because the Second Amendment is about more than just "duck hunting."
"I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home,"
Vaughn said in an interview with British GQ.
"We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government," he explained.
"It's not about duck hunting; it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech," Vaughn told British GQ.
According to the "True Detective" actor, allowing more guns in public places might have prevented the mass shootings that have taken place in recent decades.
"All these gun shootings that have gone down in America since 1950, only one or maybe two have happened in non-gun-free zones," Vaughn explained. "Take mass shootings. They've only happened in places that don't allow guns."
"These people are sick in the head and are going to kill innocent people. They are looking to slaughter defenseless human beings. They do not want confrontation," he said in the interview with British GQ.
"In all of our schools it is illegal to have guns on campus, so again and again these guys go and shoot up these (bleep) schools because they know there are no guns there. They are monsters killing 6-year-olds."
Vaughn argues that Americans deserve the same protections that our politicians expect for their own children.
"You think the politicians that run my country and your country don't have guns in the schools their kids go to? They do. And we should be allowed the same rights," Vaughn told British GQ.
"Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Taking away guns, taking away drugs, the booze, it won't rid the world of criminality."
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