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- 6 February 2013, 17:57
Bruce Willis not a fan of new US gun laws
Bruce Willis is against introducing strict new gun laws in the US, insisting politicians can't "legislate insanity".
The Second Amendment of the US Constitution, which gives Americans the right to bear arms, has been called into question following a string of gun rampages in the country.
President Barack Obama has vowed to bring in new restrictions for firearm owners after the horrific shootings of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in December, but Willis is adamant adjusting the Second Amendment would infringe on citizens' rights.
He tells the Associated Press, "I think that you can't start to pick apart anything out of the Bill of Rights without thinking that it's all going to become undone. If you take one out or change one law, then why wouldn't they take all your rights away from you?"
The Die Hard star also slammed the suggestion that violence in films can inspire real-life events: "No one commits a crime because they saw a film. There's nothing to support that. We're not making movies about people that have gone berserk, or gone nuts. Those kind of movies wouldn't last very long at all.
"It's a difficult thing and I really feel bad for those families. I'm a father and it's just a tragedy. But I don't know how you legislate insanity. I don't know what you do about it. I don't even know how you begin to stop that."
what do you think?
Wm.Russ Martin
Bruce is the equivalent of a dancing monkey; why does anyone care what he thinks about gun control, or anything other than performing a little dance? Dance, monkey! Dance! No, shut up and dance. Can't we ask Brittney or one of the Kardashian clan for their opinion? (Micheal Jackson being deceased and all...)
DREGstudios
As much of America holds a death grip on their guns, we should be asking why we are so dependent on the idea of protecting ourselves and from what? We live in a post-9/11 society in which fear is bred 24 hours a day through television and media. Other countries with similar social structures such as the UK don't have this problem and don't have guns in the hands of every man, woman and child. Read more about Living in a Society of Fear and how we are at War with Ourselves at <a href="http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/09/living-in-society-of-fear-ten-years.html" rel='nofollow'>http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/09/living-in-society-of-fear-ten-years.html</a>
DREGstudios
As much of America holds a death grip on their guns, we should be asking why we are so dependent on the idea of protecting ourselves and from what? We live in a post-9/11 society in which fear is bred 24 hours a day through television and media. Other countries with similar social structures such as the UK don't have this problem and don't have guns in the hands of every man, woman and child. Read more about Living in a Society of Fear and how we are at War with Ourselves at <a href="http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/09/living-in-society-of-fear-ten-years.html" rel='nofollow'>http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/09/living-in-society-of-fear-ten-years.html</a>
Rob Shaw
Well now I know, Brue Willis is a fool
Adrian Wagstaff
7:39pm on 6/2/2013
I disagree. They ARE making films about people with guns who have gone berserk. Practically, every film with guns shows someone going totally insane while using one and usually it's the hero of the film killing anyone at all. Rambo? He went berserk and ended up crying. Them films with Mel Gibson as a detective? He went berserk and started ranting at someone to jump off a building? In most films, all the heroes are insane. Even the Alien films! Sigourney Weaver goes completely insane, as do some of her friends and fight alien monsters with flame throwers! Hollywood films are full of insane people going berserk with guns. American children copy Hollywood violence and their language and the language of modern songs.