Though he carries a gun in almost all of his on-screen time, actor Liam Neeson is extremely anti-gun off-screen.
In an interview with The Independent to promote his new film “A Walk Among the Tombstones,” Neeson called for strict gun control in the U.S.
“I am totally for gun control in the U.S. The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying. Every day we’re seeing some kid running rampant in a school. And do you know what the gun lobby’s response to Newtown was?” he asked the Independent.
“The National Rifle Association’s official response was ‘If that teacher had been armed…’ It’s crazy. I’ll give Britain its dues, when they had the Dunblane massacre in Scotland, within 24 hours the gun laws were changed so you could not have a handgun.”
He went on to tell the Independent that America has wrongly interpreted the Second Amendment.
“It is the right to bear arms which is the problem. I think if the Founding Fathers knew what was happening they would be turning in their graves with embarrassment at how that law has been interpreted,” Neeson said.
Neeson became a U.S. citizen five years ago and he cites the citizenship process as the reason he knows all about the Constitution.
Neeson joins his fellow action star Sylvester Stallone is firing off anti-gun statements off-screen.
