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Kurt Russell To Interviewer: Laws Don’t Stop Terrorists, Guns Do

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Most promotional interviews for upcoming movies are pretty boring. Movie stars gamely field the same old questions, deliver the same old answers, and everybody pretends it’s news. But this time it actually is, thanks to the entirely predictable leftism of Hollywood Elsewhere’s Jeffrey Wells.

The audio of Wells’ interview with Russell, ostensibly about The Hateful Eight, is below. Wells starts off by trying to make some sort of connection between Tarantino’s style and the public’s mood after the Islamic terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Or at least Wells’ mood. (And he doesn’t use the words “Islamic” or “terrorism,” of course.) I’m pretty sure Wells realizes it takes more than a week or two to make a movie, and that movies aren’t reality, so I’m not sure what his point is. Tarantino isn’t my favorite person right now, but it’s ridiculous to hold him, or any other filmmaker or creative person, responsible for the actions of terrorists.

Then it gets into gun control, because of course it does. After having quite enough of Wells babbling about “disenfranchised white guys,”* Russell shuts him right the hell down. Take a listen:

Snake Plissken is right. Terrorists want to kill us, and all the laws in the world aren’t going to stop them. I don’t know what the solution is, but I do know it isn’t rendering law-abiding Americans defenseless while contravening the Second Amendment.

As for “If they’re too dangerous to fly, they’re too dangerous to own a gun”: Then why aren’t they in jail? And why weren’t these terrorists on the no-fly list to begin with? And how come the legislation in question doesn’t even use the no-fly list?

These are all rhetorical questions, of course. This isn’t going to work, and the gun-grabbers know it. They don’t care, because that isn’t the point. Their latest futile push for gun control is just another clumsy attempt to distract from the Obama administration’s utterly inept response to Islamic terrorism. And pretty much everything else.

Kudos to Kurt Russell. He manages to be friendly and likable even while putting a dimwitted leftist drone like Jeffrey Wells in his place. I’ve been on the fence about spending my money on The Hateful Eight after Tarantino’s recent nonsense, but Kurt just made the sale.

(Hat tip: Ace of Spades)

*That was the trigger phrase, if you’ll pardon the pun. Or even if you won’t.