Renowned Oscar-Winning Actress Makes Case For Common-Sense Gun Laws

Aug 20, 2007

New York, NY – Jodie Foster, winner of two Academy Awards and one of the most respected actresses in the world, says in the September issue of More magazine that she believes it makes common sense to place reasonable restrictions on access to firearms.

She told More Contributor Margy Rochlin “Isn’t it possible that we all have that bit of insanity in us?  That’s why I’m for gun control.  Absolutely.  Hunting, I get that – let’s protect hunting. But I don’t believe that people should have access to life-or-death situations at any emotional time in their life. I don’t really believe that a human being who feels [things] should have the option at their fingertips.”

Ms. Foster started her career at the age of two. She received an Academy Award nomination in the "Best Supporting Actress" category in 1976 for Taxi Driver. In 1980, she graduated as the best of her class from the College Lycée Français and began to study English Literature at Yale University, from where she graduated magna cum laude in 1985. She received two Oscars before she was thirty, her first for her part as Sarah Tobias in The Accused (1988) and the second one for her performance as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

The issue with the in-depth interview with Ms. Foster hit the newsstands last week. More magazine celebrates women over 40.  Its companion website is www.more.com.

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