Actor David Arquette says he’s “totally down” with Congress controlling the amount of gun violence depicted in films.
“Hey, listen, if you want to restrict the amount of bullets that fit in a magazine and then restrict that also from being able to show that amount of bullets in a clip on a movie screen, I’m totally down with it. Go for it,” Arquette told the Daily Caller Monday night at the Creative Coalition’s inaugural ball in Washington D.C.
He admitted that he’s not a gun control expert, though, and said,“I really try not to talk about things I don’t know too much about, because it always comes off as pretty stupid.”
President Barack Obama has not taken any action to limit gun shootings in films so far, although he did issue 23 gun control directives to federal agencies on gun control last week.
Arquette also explained why he’s agreed to act in violent movie scenes in the past, despite the fact he doesn’t “believe in guns.”
“I’m an actor, so you know, I’m sort of — I’m a worker for hire,”Arquette said, defending himself. “I’ve done things in movies and shot guns and all this … I wish I was in a position to be able to say, ‘you know what, I don’t want to do that, because there’s a gun involved, and I don’t believe in guns,’ but I’m an actor, and I need to work.”
The actor claimed he doesn’t shoot guns in real life, but that he respects other peoples’ right to have a gun.
