Kevin Costner On Madonna Apology And Gun Laws.... Kevin Costner has forgiven Madonna for poking fun at him in her Truth Or Dare backstage documentary, after she took time to publicly apologise to him during a Los Angeles concert.Madonna feigned sticking her finger down her throat to be sick after she was filmed meeting Costner after a show - an action the actor admits "embarrassed" and "hurt" him.But, a decade after the incident, Madonna made up for her bad behaviour when Costner took his daughters to see her in concert.He tells the Los Angeles Time newspaper, "She was performing about three or four years ago, so I decided to take my daughters to see her."I didn't call anybody for tickets, I just got the tickets and we went down... And about the third song in, the lights were down, and she said, 'I want to apologise to someone.' "All of a sudden, my face starts to get hot... And she says, 'I want to apologise to Kevin Costner.' She just said it very simply."Ninety eight per cent of that audience didn't know what she was talking about. But I really respected that... Whatever possessed her, whatever was inside her, she came to her own decision and a bigger thing came out of some kind of humiliation."Meanwhile Costner has joined the US gun debate and is urging U.S. lawmakers to come up with a series of strict new gun legislation - even if it limits his own shooting time.The Dances With Wolves star admits he loves to hunt and often heads out with his dogs and a shotgun passed down through generations of his family, but he's the first to admit that America's gun laws are too weak.
And following the recent tragedy (Apr06) at Virginia Tech college, where English student Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people in what was the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history, Costner feels that legislators should get tough with firearms owners, who refuse to accept their practices could harm others.
He says, "I'm a hunter, I hunt but I think there should be gun laws.
I think there should be a lot of gun laws.
"I don't want to lose my shotgun but there's a real good reason why I use my shotgun. It came from my grandpa. His cheek was on it. My dad's cheek was on it and I go out and hunt with my dogs.
"My gun's an heirloom to me and my son, one day, when I'm gone, is gonna know, `Your dad hunted with that.' "But, even though with the connection that I have to my gun, can I look at the Nra (National Rifle Association) and say, `I think you're out of line?' I can say that."
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