Sophia Bush reveals she owns a gun and calls for ‘much stricter legislation’ Actress and activist Sophia Bush is getting candid about the fact that she owns a gun. In an interview published on Thursday on People.com, Sophia talked about gun reform frankly, at one point observing, ‘It feels a bit mental that we wouldn’t regulate guns in the same way that we regulate cars, for example.’ Bush began the chat by describing her affinity for firearms as going back to when she was a child, and it was a way to bond with her father. ‘Going to the range was the thing my dad and I loved to do together and something that I really took to,’ she said. ‘Riflery, and then marksmanship in general, became a passion of mine and over the years has been something that I’ve continued to pursue.’ Later, Sophia identified herself as a gun owner, saying, ‘I’m a really passionate advocate for responsible gun ownership and for much stricter legislation around gun ownership.’ It was then that she made the analogy of guns being at least as regulated as automobiles. ‘You have to pass a test, have insurance, get your qualifications checked,’ she said of driving a car, which should obviously also be the absolute bare minimum for being able to own a lethal weapon. Bush also opened up specifically about gun violence, sharing candidly that her second cousin Christina-Taylor Green was shot and killed at age 9 in the 2011 shooting in Tuscon, Arizona. ‘Anyone out
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