He may know his way around any amount of lethal weaponry in the Taken franchise but Liam Neeson has branded US gun laws `a disgrace'.
Speaking during an interview in Dubai to promote Taken 3, Neeson (62) spoke out about the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in Paris.
“There’s just too many f****** guns out there," he said. “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 f****** disgrace. Every week now we're picking up a newspaper and seeing yet another few kids have been killed in schools.”
Before making his comments he paid tribute to those murdered in the Charlie Hebdo massacre. “First off, my thoughts and prayers and my heart are with the deceased, and certainly with all of France,” he said. "I've got a lot of dear friends in Paris."
Neeson plays retired CIA operative Bryan Mills in the Taken movies but he was quick to make the distinction between fiction and reality.
“A character like Bryan Mills going out with guns and taking revenge: it's fantasy. It's in the movies, you know?" he said. "I think it can give people a great release from stresses in life and all the rest of it, you know what I mean?
“It doesn't mean they're all going to go out and go, 'Yeah, let's get a gun!’"
