Rosie: Gun Control "Impossible"
Talk Show Host Says There Will Never Be Gun Control In America
12NEW YORK, April 17, 2007 | by Amy Bonawitz
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Rosie O'Donnell has fought for tougher gun control laws for years. (AP Photo)
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(AP) The Columbine shootings drove Rosie O'Donnell to depression, but she says she's "almost numb" to the Virginia Tech attacks.
She's so discouraged, she said on "The View" that she believes tougher gun control is "impossible."
O'Donnell has fought for tougher gun control laws for years and once got into a fight with Tom Selleck about it on her old talk show. She now feels it was "a futile attempt" and "there will never be gun control in America."
O'Donnell says the NRA is "organized," "scary" "they have guns" and, she says, it's "impossible" to fight them.Photos: Rosie O'Donnell
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Fact: 1% of the US population can be classified as psychopathic in nature.
That makes 300,000+ people ready to snap at any given moment in the US.
In Canada that puts roughly 30,000 people ready to snap at any moment. Although statistically we have probably have way more psychopaths here in the US since we don't have government funded health care taking care of these people.
Now, consider for a moment that hand guns are illegal in Canada, and GUN homicides were over 1,500 last year alone.
300,000 crazies - 11,000 killed
30,000 crazies - 1,500 killed
Still think because we have more availability to hand guns that is the reason??
Gun deaths per 100,000 population (for the year indicated):
Homicide Suicide Unintentional
USA 4.08 (1999) 6.08 (1999) 0.42 (1999)
Canada 0.54 (1999) 2.65 (1997) 0.15 (1997)
Switzerland 0.50 (1999) 5.78 (1998) -
Scotland 0.12 (1999) 0.27 (1999) -
England/Wales 0.12 (1999/00) 0.22 (1999) 0.01 (1999)
Japan 0.04* (1998) 0.04 (1995) 0.01 (1997)
There is hardly any gun crime in Canada. It is basically nill compared to USA's gun crime.
Thanks!
Guess what, they still have gun crime.
Taking away guns solves nothing, drugs are illegal we still have drugs.
Now empowering our military and former military to carry guns puts exponentially more risk out there for the criminals to prey on innocents thus potentially ousting crimes like this.
What the media fails to tell people is that in the past two years there was 2 attacks with guns that were stopped abruptly because someone had a gun and stopped the assailant.
go figure