Samuel Jackson: Gun Control Won't Stop Mass Shootings
Shootings perpetrated by people not taught the value of life, the actor suggests
The shootings at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., have stirred up a slew of gun-control sentiment in Hollywood.
But an actor who stars in perhaps the most gun-heavy movie of the season says that an abundance of firearms in this country isn't necessarily the problem, and that reducing them isn't automatically the answer.
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