Bill Maher appeared on Fusion’s America with Jorge Ramos this week, and at one point the host brought up the rumor he heard that Maher owns a gun. After confirming that it’s true, Maher said the difference between him and conservative gun owners in America is that he doesn’t “love” his gun, he just keeps it on hand in case of an emergency.

“Of course, I think the Republicans are insane about guns,” Maher told Ramos, “because they love guns, which is a sick position to have in the first place, to love something like a gun? I don’t love my gun, I have it the way I have, maybe, you know, antibiotics. It’s not something I love, it’s something in case of an emergency that I might have to use.”

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What he would “love,” Maher said would be for the Democratic Party to challenge the right on guns and go “directly after” the Second Amendment. “One party loves guns and one party likes guns a lot,” he added. “It’s ridiculous.”

Maher also said he doesn’t think his views on religion will be changing at all as he gets older, saying, “I would hate to be the kind of coward who, on his death bed all of a sudden said, “Oh gosh, yes, suddenly I believe in ghosts.”

Watch video below, via Fusion:

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