[Protagoras]

Myself. I thought I'd invite myself into the discussion.

Oh, well at least someone will answer. It seems like a layup for conservatives but the other poster never has answered it. As long as you invited yourself in Care to speculate why?

[TheAngryClam]

The sucker punch, conspiracy theorist answer would be because the Nazis did and his dad was a Nazi. That's B.S.

The real reason is because he's been in Hollywood going on 20 years now, and is married to a Kennedy.

Swim long enough in the radioactive waste, and you start to glow.

He probably also thinks that "assault weapons" are fully automatic, and cause huge fireball explosions when they're fired at something, as is often the case in his films.