The kicker: He made the comments while promoting his latest gun-heavy action movie “Taken 3,” where he spends nearly two hours shooting dozens of people.

NEW YORK — Longtime resident of the United States Liam Neeson has angered the country’s twitchy far right by stating that “America has too many fucking guns”.

Speaking at the Taken 3 press conference in Dubai on Monday, the Irish-born star of Schindler’s List, who once again plays Bryan Mills in the final film of the trilogy, responded to a question about the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris last week, which he linked to gun violence in the US.

“There are too many fucking guns out there, especially in America,” said the 62-year-old. “I think the population is like, 320 million? There are over 300 million guns. Privately owned, in America. I think it’s a fucking disgrace. Every week now we’re picking up a newspaper and seeing, ‘Yet another few kids have been killed in schools.’”

Reported by the Washington Post, Neeson added that there is a distinction between the violence of the movies and reality.

He said: “A character like Bryan Mills going out with guns and taking revenge: it’s fantasy. It’s in the movies, you know? I think it can give people a great release from stresses in life and all the rest of it, you know what I mean? It doesn’t mean they’re all going to go out and go, ‘Yeah, let’s get a gun!’”