LONDON, June 1 (UPI) — Vince Vaughn isn’t one to shy away from his opinions.
The True Detective actor recently appeared on the cover of British GQ, to which he spilled his passionate views on gun laws in the United States.
“I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. 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 said. “It’s not about duck hunting; it’s about the ability of the individual.”
Vaughn, 45, said that those who choose to kill innocent people do so in places where guns aren’t permitted. “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 told the magazine.
“In all of our schools it is illegal to have guns on campus, so again and again these guys go and shoot up these [expletive] schools because they know there are no guns there,” the father of two continued. “They are monsters killing six-year-olds.”
He also speculated that government officials wouldn’t send their children to schools where there aren’t any guns, “And we should be allowed the same rights,” he said.
“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.”
The actor also commented on the span of time during which he got “stuck” making “assembly-line comedies.” “You become a hired gun doing a very inoffensive PG-13 movie and, well, you kind of just go along with it,” he said. “Like anything in life you’re either growing or you’re dying. When you get too comfortable you start to decline.”
Vaughn now appears in the dark TV drama True Detective as Frank Semyon and will remain in its second season while prior headliners Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson will not.
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