My Gun and My Second Amendment Right Saved My Life and the Life of My Son': Conservative Actress Explains Why She Stands Behind Gun Rights

Actress and Fox News contributor Stacey Dash shared in a radio interview a story that helps explain her personal appreciation for the Second Amendment, one of the many conservative values she has been chided for in left-wing Hollywood.

“My gun and my Second Amendment right saved my life and the life of my son. I’ve had first-hand experience that I know carrying a gun can save your life,” Dash, who describes herself as a "lifetime NRA member," told WPHT-AM’s Rich Zeoli.

Actress Stacey Dash speaks onstage during the 88th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre Feb. 28 in Hollywood, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

She went on to explain the time she used a gun to protect herself against an abuser:

I got into an abusive relationship, a man that would beat me up every day for five years. I got away from that man and then got into another relationship with another man that was also not a good man. He was a bad man — cut too. My son is three-years-old. We’re being stalked by this man; we’re having to move — I can’t tell you how many times because this man would find us every place we went. Finally, I bought a gun, and thank God, because he found us. He kicked the door in off the hinges. He beat me up. My son was asleep upstairs. I ran upstairs, I got my gun, I loaded it and I came down the stairs shooting and he was coming up the stairs. I missed him, but he went away and he never came back.

Dash’s first book, “There Goes My Social Life: From Clueless To Conservative,” came out earlier this month.

The actress, who starred in the 1995 classic “Clueless,” said that, while Republicans have lauded her bravery as an outspoken conservative, her prospects as a Hollywood actor have suffered as a result.

For example, earlier this year, Dash was heavily criticized by “The View” cohosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sonny Hostin after she claimed that TV programs and awards shows exclusively for African-Americans further segregation in America.

“I’ve been embraced by the conservative world and the Republican Party, very, very much so. They’re very gracious and not racist, like people would say they are,” she told Zeoli. “But the Democrats, the oh-so-tolerant liberals, it turns out, are not so tolerable. They’re very intolerant. They’re blacklisting me, ostracizing me out of Hollywood and telling me keep my mouth shut or I won’t work again. And I won’t be scared into submission, so here I stand.”

Dash, who has voiced her support for presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, said she believes that, if more American citizens carried guns with them, the Orlando shooting could have ended sooner, with fewer casualties:

This tragic, horrific incident is proof of that. Had there been men in there, or women in there, who were allowed to carry a weapon, that were good guys, maybe so many people might not have died. There would’ve been a fair fight. But, unfortunately, of course, people who want to kill people, they don’t play by the laws. They don’t go by the gun laws. They don’t play by the rules. They’re going to carry guns anyway. So then, why don’t you give the good guys guns so that we can protect ourselves?

Listen to the full interview: