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Sci Fi Channel live chat, 4/10/2003MGROSS: People often ask me if I own guns. I should say I own a Mossberg pump action 12ga shotgun
MGROSS: I've belonged to both the NRA and Handgun Control Inc
MGROSS: That may make me bipolar
MGROSS: As much as i love weapons, I'm a friend of the Brady's and believe in sensable controls
WASHINGTON POST 11/27/88Note of interest: Gross, a supporter of handgun control for years, was so nervous about handling guns in the film that he took lessons at a shooting range, working with assorted semiautomatic handguns, revolvers and shotguns. He said he enjoyed target practice so much he now favors allowing handguns for target shooting, kept under lock and key at home, of course.
http://www.roughedge.com/videoverdicts/features/michaelgrossinterview.htmI have a great respect for weapons. I’m not afraid of them. In fact, like anyone, I get a pure testosterone rush from them, which is why I think they’re so dangerous....
I’m actually a gun control person. Someone said to me once, “Would you want that right taken away?†I said, “Oh, my God, yes! Take it away from me in a minute! The only reason I own a gun is because I assume everyone else in the United States does as well.â€
MGROSS: People often ask me if I own guns. I should say I own a Mossberg pump action 12ga shotgun
MGROSS: I've belonged to both the NRA and Handgun Control Inc
MGROSS: That may make me bipolar
MGROSS: As much as i love weapons, I'm a friend of the Brady's and believe in sensable controls
Ya mean like Outback Sprouthouse?I don't see how you could an NRA supporting Bradyite that would be as ridiculous as PETA buying stock in a steak restaurant
Well, that's why survivalists have guns. I never really thought about it. You know, survivalists were so associated with guns and things like that. I did a lot of reading, particularly with the first "Tremors" movie, about the survivalist movement and realized, of course, that they weren't necessarily violent people but the guns were there because when all your neighbors who were not prepared came knocking at your door, you had to have a way to keep them at a distance. Because the ones who are going to pooh-pooh you are the first ones who will be there saying, "Can I have some of that water of yours?"
http://www.roughedge.com/videoverdicts/features/michaelgrossinterview.htmMG: Well, I love Burt. You know, there's a little scene in the third movie that is quintessential Burt. Burt is so fear-driven that he's a paranoid, ultimately, but a comic paranoid. And there's a scene in which he goes up to his house to punch in his keycode on his pad. But before he does, he takes a good look around and stands in front of the pad - there's nobody there for miles! - but he blocks the keypad with his body. Because Burt would rightly assume that there's somebody in the hills with a high-powered telescope who wants his keypad information, wants the code. Now that's the level of paranoia. Does it get funny? Yeah, because it's just so over the top. I love that. I love that about him. It's inherent in the fact that he has no sense of humor. It's because he doesn't consider life funny that we find him funny and his extremes which are so marvelous in human behavior.
Too bad Gross sees Burt not as a responsible, self-sufficient character, but a paranoid psycho.
When is this show on and what channel?
Burt is slowly changing...he was more anti gun...now he owns guns and said he had a blast shooting that dual .50BMG turret mount..
his views are slowly coming around and he has also said he is NOT a fan of big government...if he actually WAS like the Tremors character and DID have all of those convictions...why would he say that in an interview...?
I'm a friend of the Brady's and believe in sensable controls