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Despite conclusive evidence that having a gun in the house puts you at higher risk for homicide, people truly believe their gun will keep them safe.
People like these, for example:
TED NUGENT
As aging rocker the Nuge put it, To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.
He likes to kill his own food, too.
DONALD TRUMP
Newsweek magazine reports that according to Trump, he will, if elected, Immediately veto the executive actions President Barack Obama issued this year to streamline the federal background checks system to help curb gun violence.
Trump has said it is common sense for millions of Americans to have concealed carry permits. He says he and his adult sons are NRA members; We love the Second Amendment, folks. Nobody loves it more than us, so just remember that.
MIRANDA LAMBERT
Lambert has said, I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I dont want bodyguards. I am my own security.
The singer has her concealed carry license and is a hunter. She and former husband Blake Shelton who also hunts served venison at their wedding dinner.
They shot it themselves. Awww.
AMBER My baby is a .357 Magnum HEARD
Heard has spoken in interviews about her interest in guns.
Im a good shot and I love guns. I own several. I'm fully trained and I'm an active member of a gun club. I'm definitely pro-gun, she has said.
To her credit, the actress has also said, I think there needs to be reform, because over 30,000 people in the U.S. died from gunshot wounds in the last year alone.
Duh.
SEAN PENN
Sean Penn gave up his guns, in the continental United States, which makes you wonder if he still has others elsewhere. Anyway, as a gesture of love toward Charlize Theron a few years back, he turned 65 guns into art.
Why the actor owned 65 guns is not explained.
BRUCE WILLIS
Willis is always on the list of celebrity gun lovers because he said, Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.
BRAD PITT & ANGELINA JOLIE
Jesse James says he built a pair of custom pistols for the Hollywood superstars, with her gun engraved Mama Knows Best and his with Big Papa on the side. So cute!
America is a country founded on guns. Its in our DNA. Its very strange, but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I dont feel safe, I dont feel the house is completely safe, if I dont have one hidden somewhere. Thats my thinking, right or wrong, Pitt has said.
Says his wife, Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we do have one. Yes, Id be able to use it if I had to.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG
Goldberg is a member of the NRA.
As was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
CHUCK NORRIS
See above. Norris once spoke with great emotion about how much he wanted a gun he saw in a shop window when he was a little boy. Touching.
JESSE JAMES
After the Newtown shootings in 2012, the former husband of Sandra Bullock defended gun ownership on Facebook. He compared living in California, with its gun controls, to living in Texas, where guns are welcome. James said he saw a lot of bodies in California, but, Since moving to Texas (a state with far less gun restrictions) I have not seen one dead body ... I have for the first time in my life enjoyed the freedom to purchase and shoot the guns of my choice. I have been able to enjoy these things with my family and teach them the safe proper way to shoot, handle, and secure weapons. Using the freedoms that the Second Amendment protects. Mirroring California gun laws nationwide is only going to keep the honest people, honest. People that should not have guns, will still find a way to get them. Please join the NRA now.
Dont you feel a lot safer now?
CELEB GUN LOVERS: THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Howard Stern
Dick Cheney
Kelly Clarkson
Tom Selleck
James Earl Jones
Gary Sinese
Joe Mantegna
Sarah Palin
Charlton Heston
Eric Clapton
Ice-T
Clint Eastwood
Kevin Sorbo
Ted Cruz
Vince Vaughn
THESE CELEBS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED ON GUN CHARGES
Jay-Z
Eminem
Snoop Dogg
Soulja Boy
Lil Wayne
Ja Rule
Puffy Combs
The Game
Spencer Pratt
Rip Torn
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/06/14/10-celebrities-who-love-guns-from-the-nuge-to-amber-heard