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Liam Neeson voiced his issues with gun ownership in America during a conversation about the recent shooting at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris.
First off, my thoughts and prayers and my heart are with the deceased, and certainly with all of France, yesterday. Ive got a lot of dear friends in Paris, Neeson said during an interview in Dubai this week. "There's too many fucking guns out there. Especially in America. I think the population is like, 320 million? There's over 300 million guns. Privately owned, in America. I think it's a fucking disgrace. Every week now we're picking up a newspaper and seeing, 'Yet another few kids have been killed in schools.'"
Neeson went on to deny that movies featuring firearms, such as his own "Taken" series, encourage people to buy guns, saying: "I grew up watching cowboy movies, loved doing that [gun gesture] with my fingers, 'Bang, bang, you're dead!' I didn't end up a killer. I think that's something the power of cinema can be."
According to estimates, there are between 270 million and 310 million guns in the U.S., the Pew Research Center has noted. With a population of about 300 million, that's one for every man, woman and child. In a 2013 Pew survey, 37 percent of Americans said someone in their household owned a gun.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/14/liam-neeson-america-guns_n_6472266.html
Alert Gungeoneers! To Action!! Someone has DARED to mention guns in a negative light on a 'LIBERAL' forum!!!
shenmue
(38,506 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)braddy
(3,585 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Did you not just have several threads locked and your account reviewed a week or ago for hidden posts and violating the GD SOP?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Back before DU was overrun, we called that stalking.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)and gun related posting is usually only by a few that violate the SOP and have posts locked. Yours stood out as you posted the same thing several times within hours having all locked and several posts hidden. Those type of things tend to stick out from the normal people that follow the rules.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)So transparent.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)That most people posting in GD follow the SOP and the guidance posted by Skinner? Yes I would say they are the normal and good DU members.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)I noticed those too. It seems there might be a lesson there.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)avatar, I find that unfunny and offensive.
aikoaiko
(34,172 posts)This thread was locked because a consensus of hosts saw it as a violation of the SOP for this forum.
This story was posted four days earlier and locked then, too. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026077298
These type of threads are welcome on this liberal forum in either:
Gun Control Reform Activism: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1262
or
Gun Control and RKBA: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1172