« on: February 06, 2013, 01:21:40 PM »
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2013/02/06/bruce-willis-gun-control/
Bruce Willis: First it’s gun laws, then all your rights are gone
Bruce Willis has a new action hero role: defender of the 2nd Amendment.
Willis told the Associated Press that he opposes new gun control laws and said he fears that such tinkering will lead to an erosion of citizen rights.
“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,” Willis told the Associated Press.
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“If you take one out or change one law, then why wouldn’t they take all your rights away from you?” he told the news service.
Willis’ decision to speak openly on such a controversial topic is unusual. Celebrities don’t usually wade into politically charged commentary, especially when they’re promoting a movie. But then, what else would you expect from the man who plays wisecracking New York City cop John McClane in the “Die Hard” films?
I call BS to the author on the statement that it is unusual.....plenty of hollyweird's finest (?) speak out on a wide variety of political subjects.......just mostly against guns.
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Willis dismissed the idea of a connection between real-life violence and the type of violence depicted in the entertainment world — including his action films.
“No one commits a crime because they saw a film,” Willis told the Associated Press. “There’s nothing to support that.”
Willis suggested that quick fixes — such a new gun control laws passed in the wake of the Sandy Hook, Conn., massacre — cannot prevent future mass shootings.
“It’s a difficult thing and I really feel bad for those families,” Willis said. “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.”
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"I expect perdition, I always have. I keep this building at my back, and several guns handy, in case perdition arrives in a form that's susceptible to bullets. I expect it will come in the disease form, though. I'm susceptible to diseases, and you can't shoot a damned disease." ~ Judge Roy Bean, Streets of Laredo
For the Patriots of this country, the Constitution is second only to the Bible for most. For those who love this country, but do not share my personal beliefs, it is their Bible. To them nothing comes before the Constitution of these United States of America. For this we are all labeled potential terrorists. ~ Dean Garrison
"When it comes to the enemy, just because they ain't pullin' a trigger, doesn't mean they ain't totin' ammo for those that are."~PegLeg
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