From: "Tony Inenoso" 

If her bodyguard went within 1000' of a school while packing he just did a
federal felony ;->

 Tony -- the gun free school zones act

"Randall Parker"  wrote in message
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http://reason.com/re/current.html
>    Excerpt:
> REASON Express
> May 30, 2000
> Vol. 3 No. 22
>
> The Well-Armed Anti-Gun Activist
> More Greenmail for Farmers
> Michigan Teacher Suspended for Cookout
> Quick Hits
>
>
> - - Whole Lotta Rosie - -
> Poor Rosie O'Donnell, her politics keep getting in the way of her
> lifestyle. For most folks it is the other way around: Politics keeps
> jumping the fence and messing with their lives.
> To recap, first it was her TV rants against guns versus her pitch-person
> job with K-Mart, one of the nation's biggest gun sellers. Now, it is
> Rosie's position as chief emcee and cheerleader for the Million Mom March
> smacking into her desire to have a bodyguard who packs heat.
> Many have called O'Donnell a rank hypocrite, but that is too easy. She
> can surely see the disconnect between her public positions and her
> private choices. She just thinks she has very good reasons for her
> choices, particularly the need for firearm protection.
> O'Donnell clearly perceives a threat, one that, ultimately, can only be
> met with a gun. She can still square that position with taking guns out
> of the hands of millions of Americans by believing that they do not face
> real threats.
> Yet this still gets us to the odious heart of gun control, that a
> polyglot of self-appointed experts--talk show hosts, cabinet secretaries,
> trial lawyers, big city mayors, medical researchers--is in a better
> position to judge the threats to average Americans than each and every
> one of those average Americans.
> And O'Donnell's explanation about her need for an armed guard shows this
> disdain for the rabble goes even deeper. She said all she ever wanted was
> for all gun owners to be as licensed and trained as her bodyguard.
> Welcome aboard Rosie, you've just endorsed, in principle, concealed-carry
> laws, the very thing Handgun Control Inc. crucified George W. Bush for
> enacting. Except your idea is concealed-carry for the right kind of
> people, like bodyguards to famous people. Now that is a cultural war with
> live ammo.
> And there is still more, shall we say, irony. In TV ads which have aired
> in heavy rotation in the nation's capital, Handgun Control blasts Bush
> for signing a law that allows guns to be carried into schools and
> churches.
> The circumstantial evidence suggests Rosie intended for her armed
> bodyguard to accompany her son to school in the fall. So using a gun to
> defend vulnerable populations seems to be something that is fine for the
> elite, but not for the little people. Anyone remember when the suggestion
> that an armed teacher or two at Columbine might've made a difference was
> hushed away as lunatic?
> Finally, the O'Donnell camp holds that of course she'd prefer to have
> nothing to do with guns, that a gun-crazed society is forcing this
> awkward choice. But that too is a predicament shared by plenty of gun
> owners who feel they have no choice but to arm themselves.
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/Advocate/release/05-25-2000/article1.html
> Read the "Million Mom Myths," a Reason Online Breaking Issue at
http://www.reason.com/bi/guns.html

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