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Showing Original Post only (View all)Jenna Fischer Speaks Out Against Gun Violence: "We Need to Erase This Stigma of Asking Questions" [View all]
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When Jenna Fischer was living in London last year with her family for six months while shooting the show You, Me and the Apocalypse, news back home in America seemed grim and continued to be dominated by tragic mass shootings. Her colleagues, Fischer remembered, would quiz her on what was really going on over there.
"They would ask me, Is it really true, can you just go into a store and buy a gun? Why? Why do you allow this? Arent you scared? I explained the Second Amendment and tried to answer their questions, but as the reports increased, I became more unnerved by what felt like an epidemic of violence in our country that didn't seem to affect other countries that have been exposed to the same movies and video games," she explained before attending the Brady Center's annual Bear Awards on May 4 at the Four Seasons Los Angeles. "I started to investigate why that may be."
Fischer's research led her to the Brady Center. "They are a very moderate, responsible and comprehensive organization, and I decided that was the group I wanted to work with," said the actress, dressed in a cap-sleeve dress by Rubin Singer. So she joined a number of actors and industry types at the organization's event, which honored Bill Clinton, Oscar-winning producer Dede Gardner and philanthropist David Bohnett.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jenna-fischer-speaks-gun-violence-891270
When Jenna Fischer was living in London last year with her family for six months while shooting the show You, Me and the Apocalypse, news back home in America seemed grim and continued to be dominated by tragic mass shootings. Her colleagues, Fischer remembered, would quiz her on what was really going on over there.
"They would ask me, Is it really true, can you just go into a store and buy a gun? Why? Why do you allow this? Arent you scared? I explained the Second Amendment and tried to answer their questions, but as the reports increased, I became more unnerved by what felt like an epidemic of violence in our country that didn't seem to affect other countries that have been exposed to the same movies and video games," she explained before attending the Brady Center's annual Bear Awards on May 4 at the Four Seasons Los Angeles. "I started to investigate why that may be."
Fischer's research led her to the Brady Center. "They are a very moderate, responsible and comprehensive organization, and I decided that was the group I wanted to work with," said the actress, dressed in a cap-sleeve dress by Rubin Singer. So she joined a number of actors and industry types at the organization's event, which honored Bill Clinton, Oscar-winning producer Dede Gardner and philanthropist David Bohnett.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jenna-fischer-speaks-gun-violence-891270
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Jenna Fischer Speaks Out Against Gun Violence: "We Need to Erase This Stigma of Asking Questions" [View all]
SecularMotion
May 2016
OP
Why should I bother re-posting any of the dozens of studies posted here just to have them
flamin lib
May 2016
#26
Not an insult, a simple characterization. As you never add anything of substance to a conversation
flamin lib
May 2016
#35
When I talk with my friends from other countries, they don't ask about guns ...
JustABozoOnThisBus
May 2016
#5
A lot of "antigun" actors are really "antigun unless offered a paycheck for using guns onscreen", or
friendly_iconoclast
May 2016
#18
God, they have MSM, the DNC, foundations, and a billionaire or two. What else?
Eleanors38
May 2016
#38