[caption id=”attachment_143215″ align=”aligncenter” width=”4210″]Actress Amy Schumer becomes emotional during a news conference while her distant cousin, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, looks on in New York, Monday, Aug. 3, 2015. The Schumers are teaming up to try and enact gun control regulations. They cited the recent shooting in a Louisiana movie theater that killed two women and injured nine others during a screening of the movie “Trainwreck” starring Amy Schumer. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Amy Schumer said “money” is the reason the U.S. has not passed more gun control laws.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the comedian was promoting her new film, Trainwreck at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland on Saturday when a reporter asked her about her recent involvement in the push for stricter gun control laws.
“You know it’s really not my area of expertise, but it really upset me,” Schumer said, referring to the shooting that took place in a Lafayette, La. movie theater during a recent screening of her film. “I just felt the need to get involved because of how personal that event felt and how upset it made me feel.”
The journalist asked why Schumer thought the U.S. has not passed more gun control measures.
“I think it’s money,” she replied.
On August 3, Amy spoke with her second cousin Sen. Chuck Schumer at a press conference in New York, in support of allocating more funding for mental health and substance abuse programs and penalizing states that don’t submit the necessary records for background checks.
