Hollywood actor Vince Vaughn told British GQ magazine this week that he supports people having guns in public, “not just in your home,” and says the point of the Second Amendment to the Constitution is to protect people from the government.
“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,” he said.
Asked by the British magazine whether guns should be allowed in schools, Vaughn replied: “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,” he added. “Taking away guns, taking away drugs, [taking away] the booze, it won’t rid the world of criminality.”
Vaughn said in the interview that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is “a hero.”
“I like what he did. My idea of treason is that you sell secrets to the enemy. He gave information to the American people,” said Vaughn of Snowden, who first revealed that the NSA was collecting all Americans’ phone records without a warrant. Snowden’s revelation led to Sunday’s Senate showdown and the debate over the USA Freedom Act.
“There’s a corruption that goes all the way to the top,” he said.
Vaughn, a well-known comedic actor, has taken up a darker role on the TV show “True Detective.” Vaughn has made headlines for his libertarian views and had endorsed Ron Paul in the 2012 presidential election.
“Governments claim to write endless laws to protect us, a law for this, a law for that, but are they working? I don’t think so,” asserted Vaughn. “The consequences are that there is a staggering loss of freedom for the individual.”
