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Electric Monk

(13,869 posts)
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 09:25 PM Jan 2015

Liam Neeson on Charlie Hebdo & gun control. Gun control in the US is a [expletive] disgrace.

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“First off, my thoughts and prayers and my heart are with the deceased, and certainly with all of France, yesterday. I’ve got a lot of dear friends in Paris,” the 62-year-old said.

“There’s too many {expletive} guns out there,” he continued. “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 {expletive} disgrace. Every week now we’re picking up a newspaper and seeing, ‘Yet another few kids have been killed in schools.’”

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Liam Neeson on Charlie Hebdo & gun control. Gun control in the US is a [expletive] disgrace. (Original Post) Electric Monk Jan 2015 OP
Yeah, it's disgrace.. illegal guns, too. Cha Jan 2015 #1
But...but...but... Unknown Beatle Jan 2015 #2
our hero's nra's hypo's jimmy the one Jan 2015 #3
update: Gun Company Calls For Boycott of Liam Neeson After Anti-Gun Comments Electric Monk Jan 2015 #4
That makes me WANT to go see his latest film! n/t Raine1967 Jan 2015 #5

Unknown Beatle

(2,688 posts)
2. But...but...but...
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 12:10 AM
Jan 2015

The NRA said we'd all be safer with guns and rifles and right to arm bears...oh my.

jimmy the one

(2,720 posts)
3. our hero's nra's hypo's
Tue Jan 13, 2015, 12:38 PM
Jan 2015

Liam Neeson on Charlie Hebdo & gun control: “There’s too many {expletive} guns out there,” he continued. “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 {expletive} disgrace. Every week now we’re picking up a newspaper and seeing, ‘Yet another few kids have been killed in schools.’”

Liam Neeson will join Sylvester Stallone as a gun control advocate's hero & the nra's hypocrite, for bashing American gun culture while starring in pictures which blast away with guns that always save their lives.
Actually, just having seen on tv both taken, & taken2 (liam's movies), I'd'a thunk he'd'a been a gunnut, happy to be wrong. The movies do somewhat glorify guns, but they're pseudo-realism, not Guns in America REALISM. But they do have a pretty tight escape hatch, eh?

I generally don't care for pseudo realism, sorry to admit I didn't think much of Neeson's movies in that regard, but shining a light on foreign exploitation of young girls in w-houses it was excellent.

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