Guns should be allowed in Schools to Prevent Mass Shootings-Vince Vaughn

Vince Vaughn is providing some ammunition to the debate over guns in schools.

The "True Detective" star told the British GQ that he supports allowing guns in schools as deterrent against the mass shootings that have plagued the U.S. in recent years — such as the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 20 children and six staff members dead.

"Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat," he told GQ UK. "Taking away guns, taking away drugs, the booze, it won't rid the world of criminality."

Vaughn, 45, added that the mass shootings have generally "only happened in places that don't allow guns."

The reason people who are "sick in the head" gravitate towards schools is because it is illegal to have guns on campus, which makes for ripe, low-risk targets, he said.

"It's well known that the greatest defense against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back," he told the men's magazine.

The Ron Paul supporter, who plays a former criminal who is trying to reinvent himself as a legitimate businessman on the new season of "True Detective" that premieres June 21 on HBO, went further — adding that he believed in the right to pack in public "full-stop."

"We have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government," he said.

The actor also hailed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as a hero for giving information back to the American public.

Vaughn is normally quiet about his politics, but did reveal his right-leaning values in a 2013 interview on "The Adam Carolla Show."

"I think that what you come, as you get older, you just get less trust in the government running anything," he said at the time. "And that you start to realize when you really go back and look at the Constitution and the principles of liberty, the real purpose of government is to protect the individual's right to, you know, sort of think and pursue what they have interest in."