By Joshua Blake
Cue the Facebook statuses, shares, and likes – the tweets, news reports, and useless blogs posts – Vince Vaughn is fucking crazy.
Jonathan Heaf of GQ Magazine wrote a Q&A with the notorious actor – which is currently shown as a preview online – showcasing just how crazy Vince Vaughn really is.
“Edward Snowden is a hero,” says Vaughn. Since Snowden “gave information to the American people,” he’s not a traitor. Vaughn’s version of treason entails selling secrets to the enemy – which is why Snowden fled to Hong Kong, China, to tell the South China Morning Post that there were more than 61,000 NSA hacking operations globally, with hundreds of targets in Hong Kong and on the mainland.
Vaughn then delves into the right of gun-ownership in America. “I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home,” says Vaughn. Although when a child or teen is killed by a firearm, the gun that killed them comes from their own home fully 72 percent of the time.
Homicide is the second-leading cause of death among 15-24 year-olds. Michelle Castillo of CBS News wrote an amazing piece about U.S. life expectancy is the lowest among wealthy nations due to disease and violence. Americans suffer more violent deaths compared to other countries because of large firearm possession. We have the highest rate of gun-ownership in the world. On top of this, we are below-average in infant mortality, low birth weight, homicide, teen pregnacy, STI’s, HIV, and AIDS. But we’re still number one, right?
Vaughn says “In all of our schools it is illegal to have guns on campus, so again and again these guys go and shoot up these fucking schools because they know there are no guns there. They are monsters killing six-year-olds.” He also says that shootings happen where guns aren’t allowed. There are 89 civilian-owned firearms for every 100 Americans and Vince Vaughn believes guns should be allowed in schools – even though there’s about 300 shootings a day, 89 deaths and children are 100 times more likely to be murdered outside of school than at school,
Mental illness is an excuse that just dances around the actual issue, too. “Some mass shooters have mental illness,” says Dewey G. Cornell – a forensic clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia – who wrote a column for The Washington Post. “Most do not. Mental illness is a term reserved for the most severe mental disorders where the person has severe symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations.”
“Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat,” says Vaughn. No, no it’s not. And to be clear, nobody has once mentioned banning guns. We’ve tried it with prohibition, and people lost their shit. Tell me I’m wrong, but has President Obama ever addressed the nation saying “Good evening my fellow Americans. I am talking to you all tonight, to inform you that I will be enacting a ban on all firearms. My decision in this matter was clear: people are no longer fat since I’ve banned forks and there will be no more gun-related deaths, because they will be banned. America is – from this moment forth – a Monarchy, and I am King Obama. God bless you, and God bless the United States.”
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