Aloha_Shooter
12-21-2015, 17:08
http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/12/20/kurt-russell-drops-second-amendment-truth-bomb-liberal-ladies-view?intcmp=hppop
Whoopi: You're a rare bird in Hollywood; you're a libertarian. And recently you made some headlines for saying that gun control, you felt that gun control laws wouldn't deter terrorists. Explain to folks.
Kurt: Well you know, these are the things that first of all, I was in a situation. We do what we call a dog and pony, we're out doing the dog and pony selling a picture. You get kinda, sometimes you get what you feel is slightly ambushed by somebody who's really got an agenda and that's sort I think that's my opinion of what happened to me the other day. The last thing I like to watch is, is entertainers or actors get political. It's just something I can't stand watching. So having said that, uh no, I was asked about, I was kind of asked to put it in context somehow with this movie. You know, my personal feeling is there's a big difference between Fantasyland and Reality. Fantasyland is what we do. It's either writing something, writing a song, writing a book, doing a movie, doing a television show. That's, that's Fantasyland and that's where that stuff belongs. In reality, when we're dealing with things like terrorism and what not, we're all going to have different opinions on how, on how to do it, how to deal with it. Mine happens to be, that uh, I think there's a very strong reason Founding Fathers had for the Second Amendment and that is that no government ever hasn't had to, um, fight its own people and its own people hasn't had to fight its own government. We had our Civil War. If that Second Amendment hadn't been there, those people would not have had the opportunity to do what they considered was defending their life, their way, their style of living. I agree with that.
Not exactly the most articulate expression but I think Whoopi ambushed him with this question so he hadn't thought out a full response -- as it was, he did well, considering it WAS an ambush. Joy "Beast" Behar probably had to go cry afterwards because he invaded their safe zone ...
Whoopi: You're a rare bird in Hollywood; you're a libertarian. And recently you made some headlines for saying that gun control, you felt that gun control laws wouldn't deter terrorists. Explain to folks.
Kurt: Well you know, these are the things that first of all, I was in a situation. We do what we call a dog and pony, we're out doing the dog and pony selling a picture. You get kinda, sometimes you get what you feel is slightly ambushed by somebody who's really got an agenda and that's sort I think that's my opinion of what happened to me the other day. The last thing I like to watch is, is entertainers or actors get political. It's just something I can't stand watching. So having said that, uh no, I was asked about, I was kind of asked to put it in context somehow with this movie. You know, my personal feeling is there's a big difference between Fantasyland and Reality. Fantasyland is what we do. It's either writing something, writing a song, writing a book, doing a movie, doing a television show. That's, that's Fantasyland and that's where that stuff belongs. In reality, when we're dealing with things like terrorism and what not, we're all going to have different opinions on how, on how to do it, how to deal with it. Mine happens to be, that uh, I think there's a very strong reason Founding Fathers had for the Second Amendment and that is that no government ever hasn't had to, um, fight its own people and its own people hasn't had to fight its own government. We had our Civil War. If that Second Amendment hadn't been there, those people would not have had the opportunity to do what they considered was defending their life, their way, their style of living. I agree with that.
Not exactly the most articulate expression but I think Whoopi ambushed him with this question so he hadn't thought out a full response -- as it was, he did well, considering it WAS an ambush. Joy "Beast" Behar probably had to go cry afterwards because he invaded their safe zone ...