‘Lethal Weapon’ star Danny Glover may be the next Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Like the Governator, Glover might have political aspirations.
It was LeVar Burton, of ‘Reading Rainbow‘ fame, who first put the idea in Glover’s head. “Maybe you ought to run for governor,” Burton said during an African-American Heritage Month event in LA last month.
But Glover has neither confirmed nor denied whether he has any interest in becoming the next governor of California.
“Well, we had one actor [governor] already,” the actor/activist told the Washington Examiner‘s “Yeas & Nays” at an event in Washington, D.C. Wednesday night. “I’d rather keep pushing from the outside.”
Gun control would most likely be at the top of the actor’s political platform if he should decide to run. “We should abolish guns,” he told the Washington Examiner, arguing that gun control is the “prelude to the end of violence.”
And the actor has never been shy about his views on the Second Amendment.
“I don’t know if people know the genesis of the right to bear arms,” Glover said during an event at Texas A&M University last month. “The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect, to protect themselves from slave revolts and from uprisings from Native Americans.”
“A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from – that’s what the genesis of the Second Amendment is,” he added.
Glover may also face some obstacles on the road to becoming the California Glovenor – not only for the aforementioned controversial comments, but also for his criminal history.
The actor was arrested for disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly while protesting the Darfur crisis outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, D.C., in 2004.
