Posted on 09/20/2014 11:41:43 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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Liam Neeson, legendary Irish actor and star of such films as Takenand Non-Stop, does not identify with the hardcore, gun-toting action heroes he so often portrays.
"I am totally for gun control in the U.S.," Neeson said in an interview with The Independent. "The population of America is roughly 300 million and there are 300 million guns in this country, which is terrifying."
Neeson criticized the National Rifle Association's response to the 2012 shooting in Newton, Connecticut, which the actor summarized as, "If that teacher had been armed..."
"It's crazy," Neeson said. "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."
Neeson became an official U.S. citizen five years ago. He says of the Constitution: "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."
Spoken like a true “loyal subject”.
I don’t know much about the Irish Civil war but wasn’t Collins technically on the UK’s side at that point, against the IRA?
Thanks, but I have never been a subject. Thanks to the Nationality Act of 1948. As for Collins, there are Irish Nationalist heroes I can admire: Sorley Boy McDonnell, Wolfe Tone. Men who fought fairly and admirably. Not terrorists like Collins, who murdered civilians, and whose IRA colleagues committed a forgotten but brutal ethnic cleansing of Protestants in the early 1920’s along the border. Inc members of my own maternal family.
I have had two members of my (maternal) family murdered in 1921 and 1971 by the IRA. You’ll understand I am not fond of them. Or any of the terror groups who made a beautiful country like NI a murderous mess for decades.
Liam Neeson was great in “Taken” and a few others over the years but he will never get another dime out of me.
And Taken had Neeson firings guns at least 100 times at the Muslim kidnappers who ran a sex slave trade
“...I have had two members of my (maternal) family murdered in 1921 and 1971 by the IRA...”
My condolences.
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