{"id":65396,"date":"2016-10-27T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T15:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=65396"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T03:37:03","slug":"mel-gibson-addresses-guns-america-balance-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/mel-gibson-addresses-guns-america-balance-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson Addresses Guns in America: \u2018It\u2019s Out of Balance at the Moment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_65397\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gibsonjpg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"mel-gibson-addresses-guns-america-balance-moment\" title=\"Mel Gibson Addresses Guns in America: \u2018It\u2019s Out of Balance at the Moment\u2019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65397\" title=\"Mel Gibson Addresses Guns in America: \u2018It\u2019s Out of Balance at the Moment\u2019\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gibsonjpg-400x268.jpg\" alt=\"Actor, director Mel Gibson. \" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gibsonjpg-400x268.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gibsonjpg-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gibsonjpg.jpg 725w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actor, director Mel Gibson. (<em>Photo: Reuters<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Actor and director Mel Gibson jumped into the gun debate, albeit obliquely, in a recent interview with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2016\/10\/26\/mel-gibson-talks-gun-control-potholes-fame.html?ref=yfp\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"mel-gibson-addresses-guns-america-balance-moment\" title=\"Mel Gibson Addresses Guns in America: \u2018It\u2019s Out of Balance at the Moment\u2019\"> Fox News <\/a>while promoting his new movie \u201cHacksaw Ridge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the issue, the 60-year-old movie star said, \u201cWell, I understand where it comes from, the right to bear arms because the Revolution and that stuff and tyranny and the right to defend yourself, and I still agree with that, but it\u2019s kind of out of balance at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Something has to be done in order to stop some of the heinous violence that has [occured] just like sporadically and shockingly\u2026,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>When prompted for specific solutions, Gibson didn\u2019t offer any.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know what the answer to that is\u2026,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt\u2019s going to take someone smarter than me to figure that out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Gibson didn\u2019t parrot the usual cliches about \u201cbackground checks\u201d and \u201cbans on <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/assault-rifles\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"mel-gibson-addresses-guns-america-balance-moment\" title=\"Mel Gibson Addresses Guns in America: \u2018It\u2019s Out of Balance at the Moment\u2019\" target=\"_blank\">assault weapons<\/a>.\u201d Maybe he is smart enough to recognize his own ignorance on the subject or maybe he just didn\u2019t want to prompt pro-gunners into boycotting his new film by voicing support for a specific anti-gun policy measure.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe Gibson is open to non-conventional solutions to combat violence, such as getting rid of gun-free zones and empowering more law-abiding citizens to rely less on government and take responsibility for their own safety by exercising their Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n<p>Doubtful, but who knows.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, Gibson\u2019s new movie \u201cHacksaw Ridge\u201d highlights the true story of Desmond T. Doss, a U.S. Army corporal and combat medic who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor during WWII.<\/p>\n<p>Doss was a conscientious objector to the war due to his faith as a Seventh-day Adventist. He refused to carry a firearm or kill an enemy soldier. 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