Actor Vince Vaughn Stuns With Full-Throated Support Of Gun Rights

By Bob Owens

We’ve known for a while that Vince Vaughn had libertarian tendencies, but he seems to have stunned many with his uncompromising support for gun rights in a wide-ranging interview in the British edition of GQ.

GQ posted segments of the interview online:

On the American right to own a gun:
“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. It’s not about duck hunting; it’s about the ability of the individual. It’s the same reason we have freedom of speech. It’s well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back. All these gun shootings that have gone down in America since 1950, only one or maybe two have happened in non-gun-free zones. 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 defenceless human beings. They do not want confrontation. In all of our schools …read more

Source:: Bearing Arms