Julianne Moore launches gun safety program

Julianne Moore is launching a gun management initiative as a result of she thinks firearms ought to be a extra regulated business.

So far, the actress has been joined on the council by 79 other celebrities, including fellow film stars Reese Witherspoon, Kevin Bacon, Alec Baldwin, Amy Schumer and TV host Ellen Degeneres. Her daughter eventually found out what had happened, which was when Julianne felt a shift.

Moore said she and her colleagues are saddened by the increase in daily gun violence the country has seen in recent years. “I said to my husband, (director Bart Freundlich), ‘I’ve got to do something”. ‘Please, are you interested, ‘ and the response has been overwhelming.

Moore told People magazine she was inspired to take action after being horrified by the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, in which 20 children and six adults died.

“But 92 percent of the people in the United States are in favor of background checks, too, so I don’t feel like I’m in the minority”. I feel like something that is very sensible and straight forward can be done also with guns’. “For cars, you have to have training and you have to have a license, and you wear seat belts and we have airbags and we have all of these things in place that have reduced fatalities unbelievably”.

“And it was a totally unregulated industry at first”.

The Freeheld star isn’t suggesting that guns be outlawed; rather, she’s advocating for the responsibility that comes with ownership.

Moore, who gained an Oscar in February for her position as a lady with early onset Alzheimer’s illness in “Still Alice”, stated she went by means of her handle guide to garner help.

Moore will chair the new group, named The Everytown Creative Council, which is affiliated with Everytown for Gun Safety, a grassroots community campaign which has three million members in the US. “These are responsible people”. “I’m so, so thrilled everybody feels this way about this issue”.

Julianne is calling on people to be more open about the topic of gun safety, to talk about it with their peers and speak to those in power if they want laws to change.