‘Lethal Weapon’ star Danny Glover says US should ‘abolish guns’

[n2sooners]

Hollywood actor and political activist Danny Glover, star of the “Lethal Weapon” films with Mel Gibson, told The Daily Caller that Congress should “abolish guns” in the U.S.

“I don’t own a gun and definitely not only Gun Control, we should abolish guns, the personal guns. That’s how far I’m willing to go,” Glover told TheDC at a TransAfrica Forum benefit event on Wednesday night.

“There are many people in this country who do not have guns, who don’t own guns and are still under the same, are still susceptible to being burglarized or anything, but that doesn’t mean that we should willingly accept the fact that we need guns. We have to find some sort of way in which we live together, some sort of way in which we move on, for the human species to move on without guns.”

Glover said if Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive today, “he would be out there advocating for the end of guns as a prelude to the end of violence as well.”

African Passion Wines, a new South African wine available for the first time in America, raised funds to support the TransAfrica Forum by sponsoring “An Evening with Danny Glover” in Washington.

TransAfrica is the “oldest and largest African American human rights and social justice advocacy organization in the United States.”

Video at source

I couldn't watch the video. After just a minute or so of his babbling and not understanding what he was trying to say I gave up. He's not nearly so eloquent without a script.

 

[reddog1]

Actors are paid to act.

 

[Relentless]

Yeah, man, just totally get rid of all the guns and let's sing Kumbaya around the campfire and make smores. If we did that there would be no more murders or robberies or rapes or even violent altercations. No more knives either, if you can't cut your steak with a fork you shouldn't be eating it

 

[Pokinfun]

I think it is funny, how the the main group in our country who could of benefited in the past from owning firearms, are the first to say get rid of them. It seems like that 200 years of slavery would of taught them a lesson about oppresive governments.

 

[HackerF15E]

When did people start to think that actors have any sort of political or philosophical wisdom that is noteworthy?

 

[ignerntbend]

I think it is funny, how the the main group in our country who could of benefited in the past from owning firearms, are the first to say get rid of them. It seems like that 200 years of slavery would of taught them a lesson about oppresive governments.

Danny Glover is not a group. He's an actor. Carry on.

 

[Belthos]

I don’t know if you know the genesis of the right to bear arms,” Glover said. “The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. So, a revolt from people who were stolen from their land, or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that’s what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...mendment-slave-revolts-slavery_n_2511638.html

If you haven't had your daily serving of fruitloops for breakfast today, you can lose a couple minutes of your life listening to this idiot give you the history of our country according to Glover.

 

[farmerbyron]

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[cjjtulsa]

Glover said if Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive today, “he would be out there advocating for the end of guns as a prelude to the end of violence as well.”

Good. Then they could flip a coin to see who can KMA first.

 

[Cinaet]

Another Hollywood hypocrite. Glover's been at the hypocrite game a long time.