Stallone backs assault-weapons ban
Sylvester Stallone has said that despite his Rambo image and new shoot-’em-up film 'Bullet To The Head', he is in favour of new US gun curbs.
The actor, who supported the 1994 “Brady bill” that included a now-expired ban on assault weapons, said he now hoped it could be reinstated.
“I know people get (upset) and go, ’They’re going to take away the assault weapon’. Who...needs an assault weapon? Like really, unless you’re carrying out an assault...You can’t hunt with it...Who’s going to attack your house, a (expletive) army?”
The 66-year-old actor, writer and director said he also hoped for an additional focus on mental health to prevent future mass shootings.
“It’s unbelievably horrible, what’s happened. I think the biggest problem, seriously, is not so much guns. It’s that every one of these people that have done these things in the past 30 years are friggin’ crazy. Really crazy! And that’s where we’ve dropped the ball: mental health,” he said.
“That to me is our biggest problem in the future, is insanity coupled with isolation.”
Stallone, meanwhile, is now in production on his next project, pairing up with former Raging Bull star Robert De Niro for Grudge Match, about two ageing boxers.
“People think it’s going to be some geezer brawl. Really? OK, they’re in for a surprise. I’m telling you. I’ve been working on the fight, the choreography. He’s taking it deadly serious. Because no-one wants to be shown up,” Stallone said of De Niro.
“It’s going to be like a Rocky fight. This will be Rocky 7, with me fighting - with Rocky fighting the Raging Bull.”
