Vince Vaughn: ‘Of Course’ Guns Should Be in Schools
Noted Hollywood conservative Vince Vaughn spoke at length about his political views in a recent interview with GQ. The actor’s atypical political convictions don’t often make the news, but this time the context is a little different: Vaughn thinks American schools should have more access to firearms.
According to The Guardian, the actor launched into the topic when the GQ interviewer asked whether or not he thought guns should be allowed in schools as a defensive measure. Vaughn’s immediate response was emphatic:
Of course. You think the politicians that run my country and your country don’t have guns in the schools their kids go to? They do.
And we should be allowed the same rights. Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Taking away guns, drugs, booze… It won’t rid the world of criminality.
Aside from the unsurprising libertarian stance that’s readily apparent in Vaughn’s words, the actor also spends some time explaining his position in regards to the Second Amendment:
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 defense against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.
The political minutia of Vaughn’s argument somewhat help to distance him from the oft-referenced home defense scenario. That is, until he mentions the example of “an intruder” being deterred by “the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.”
Don’t forget his final take — nods blaming mental illness, a favorite argument of pro- and anti-gun control advocates alike:
These people are sick in the head and are going to kill innocent people. They are looking to slaughter defenseless human beings…In all of our schools it is illegal to have guns on campus, so again and again these guys go and shoot up these…schools because they know there are no guns there. They are monsters killing six-year-olds.
[GQ h/t The Guardian]
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