Anna Paquin Talks Gun Control After NZ Mosque Attack

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New Zealand-Canadian actress Anna Paquin strongly favors gun control — even more so after the mosque shootings that killed 50 people. And as she tells Brut — she doesn't care if it means losing friends and fans on social media.

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00:00As a human and as a woman of New Zealand and as someone who grew up in a non-gun culture world there,

00:09it's absolutely heartbreaking.

00:13I can't believe that's something that could possibly have happened in my beautiful, peaceful country,

00:31but I also am so incredibly proud of how our Prime Minister has handled it.

00:35Regular civilians do not need to have military-grade weapons. I don't believe that's necessary.

00:40I've probably lost a few hundred thousand Twitter followers, and that might make me unpopular with some people,

00:46but that's what I believe, and I think she acted incredibly swiftly and respectfully and makes me really proud to be a Kiwi.

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