Brad Pitt: “I don’t feel safe without a gun, it’s in my American DNA”

The ‘Killing Them Softly’ actor is protective of his fiancee Angelina Jolie, and the children they raise – Maddox, 11, Pax, nine, Zahara, seven, Shiloh, six, and four-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne – and feels owning a weapon is ‘in his DNA’ as an American.

He told the Daily Mail’s Live magazine: ‘America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe, if I don’t have one hidden somewhere.

‘That’s my thinking, right or wrong.’

Brad, 48, points out how he was exposed to guns from an early age but still turned out to be a responsible adult.

He added: ‘I got my first BB gun when I was in nursery school. I got my first shotgun by first grade, I had shot a handgun by third grade and I grew up in a pretty sane environment.’

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