In an outtake from a 2018 interview with Australian television, Ben Simmons talked about U.S. gun culture, how mass shootings in the U.S. had made things “kind of scary being over here” compared to his native Australia.
In the “Extra Minutes” clip from an interview with “60 Minutes Australia,” Simmons called the ability of anyone to walk into a Wal-Mart and buy a gun “crazy.”
“To me, just being an Australian and seeing what goes on back home, we don’t have people carrying around guns and we don’t have mass shootings like that.