CNN’s Chris Wallace Notes ‘More Guns Than There Are Americans’ In Gripping Gun Control Exchange With Beau Bridges

CNN anchor Chris Wallace noted the prevalence of guns in America during a surprisingly gripping exchange with actor Beau Bridges about the time he almost got wasted by a gunman.

Wallace interviewed the accomplished actor for this week’s edition of his Max series Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace on a variety of topics, including his role as James Brady, the former White House spokesman who became a leading gun control activist following his paralysis by an assassin’s bullet.

Things got intense when Wallace brought up the incident in which Bridges had a gun put to his head during a robbery in real life:

WALLACE: So, you won an Emmy for your portrayal of James Brady, Ronald Reagan’s press secretary, who gets shot in the head during the assassination attempt against the president. You really captured the Bear as he called himself and as his wife Sarah called him.

BRIDGES: Yeah, I got to know both of them really well. Fantastic people.

WALLACE: You tell a story that, you were once found yourself in a hold up and a guy takes a gun and puts it to your head, doesn’t end up shooting you thank God, but that you came to think you know, if he had pulled that trigger you would have been, if you were lucky, like James Brady. What do you make of the situation of guns in America today?

BRIDGES: Oh boy. Yeah. I, there’s so many of them out there now, Chris. I mean, they just…

WALLACE: More guns than there are Americans.

BRIDGES: Yeah. And I think about a place like England where they just don’t it’s not happening. But I was in the military. I was in the Coast Guard. And so I have a respect for weapons and, but I just think that there’s not enough control over them that’s all. You know, my grandfather was a hunter. So I understand, you know, the romance of hunting and all of that, but no, I think there are too many guns.

Watch above via Max’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace.