Funny stuff in the news (yeah, slow news day):

O'Donnell defends bodyguard's gun permit By Associated Press, 6/8/2000 13:38 NEW YORK (AP) Rosie O'Donnell, one of the country's most prominent gun control advocates, is defending her son's bodyguard's application for a concealed weapon permit.

''Whether or not my family is in need of armed guards, that doesn't change my position on gun control,'' O'Donnell told People magazine. ''It's not inconsistent.''

National Rifle Association officials and others have accused O'Donnell of hypocrisy since The Greenwich Time, her local paper in Connecticut, reported May 25 that a bodyguard who will accompany her 5-year-old son to kindergarten has applied for a gun permit.

The television talk show host, who emceed the recent Million Mom March pushing for tighter gun laws, says the bodyguard will not carry the gun to school. She even told People, in its issue out Friday, that her son may change schools because of the hubbub.

She criticized Greenwich police for releasing information about the application, and said officers should not have come onto the property of her son's preschool to search the bodyguard.

''That there was no gun was, I'm sure, disappointing to them,'' she said.

O'Donnell has said she and her three children need protection because of threats made against her as a result of her outspoken stance on gun control. She moved recently from Nyack, N.Y., to a gated community in Greenwich in part because of worries about safety.

-- FactFinder (FactFinder@bzn.com), June 08, 2000

Answers

What she is saying is that her family has a right to be protected by a firearm (via her bodyguard), but the rest of us common people aren't worth protecting. How people can align themselves with the views of this arrogant hypocrite are beyond me.

-- J (Y2J@home.comm), June 08, 2000.

Fuck you, Rosie.

-- March For Bullshit (million.moms@can.be.wrong), June 08, 2000.

Seems kinda dumb if the guy ain't gonna carry to school. Ain't he gonna be with the kid? Ain't that his job? Ain't the kid gonna be at school?

Rosie, right here on my southern pucker!

Go rivet something!

-- Betty Rubble is still in the stone age! (seeya@the.talkshow.NOT!!!), June 08, 2000.

I was wondering about this when I saw the Million Mom March thread. I stopped watching her show when she ripped into Tom Selleck for being a member of the NRA, calling him a spokeperson and belittling his right to bear arms. What a bitch! Picking a fight with a guest. Miss manners wouldn't approve.

-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), June 08, 2000.

And your point is *WHAT*, with this posting?

Gun control is going to keep illegal guns out of the hands of criminals?

Yeah right.....next?

-- WHO ME (Whome@nowhere.com), June 09, 2000.

This woman makes me want to barf. I wish Hillary and her would go do some speeches in Tianneman Square.

-- (laureltree7@hotmail.com), June 09, 2000.

"Laws that forbid the carrying of armsdisarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater  confidence than an armed man." Thomas Jefferson, quoting Cesare Beccaria in On Crimes and punishment (1764). "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason, during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution (1788). "False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crime."--Thomas Jefferson "Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state government, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people" --Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788. "Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" --Patrick Henry, 3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d ed. Philadelphia, 1836

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), June 10, 2000.