Rosie: Gun Control "Impossible"

(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."

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Photos: Rosie O'Donnell

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O'Donnell says the NRA is "organized," "scary" "they have guns" and, she says, it's "impossible" to fight them.

[quanibear]

The US has 10 times the population of Canada.

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??

[redhoffer]

I have little time to find newer facts for gross reporting of false facts... Please. USA has WAY MORE gun crime than Canada. These two posts otherwise are just silly. It is a commonly known reality.

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)

[redhoffer]

Just to correct the previous post's factual error...

There is hardly any gun crime in Canada. It is basically nill compared to USA's gun crime.

Thanks!

[quanibear]

Hand guns are illegal in Canada. Can't buy them, can't carry them. They have been illegal for quite some time.

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

[bizzzz-2009]

Gee Rosie, did you ever think that it might have been a comment like your "Ching, Chang, Ching Chong" comment that might have sent this Asian kid over the edge???

[lawandorder6]

delfmast, I sure glad you don't run things. The USA would be screwed up, BAD, worst than it is already.

[delfmast]

We wasted $40 billion in a vain attempt to create a homeland security department that could stop attacks in soft targets, churches, schools, etc. You cannot create veteran people, capable of defending our citizens, instantly, and they will not do the work cheaply. On the other hand, there were long service military reserve officers on several of the 9/ll planes, and there were military reserve, retired, and serving active duty personnel, all over the campus while the shooter was killing 32 innocents. A Presidental order, for every living military officer, and senior non-com, to carry a sidearm, with yearly shooting qualification, at all times would increase the risk for the attacker, and thus, stop these soft target attacks. Ask how many reserve officers saw the shooter, ask how many could have stopped him with one shot, from a concealed side arm. A simple no cost order, we already paid for the reservist's training, and their retirements, use them to make our nation safe, and watch soft attacks fall over the years. Oh, yeah, and watch crime fall instantly, year by year, as adult supervison becomes the norm, on our subways, in our shops and streets, and violence stops being a no risk option.

[lawandorder6]

Take your guns and stick them. Don't you think it is time to start thinking about someone else for a change, not just "YOU" The dead are gone on accound of a "GUN" YES A GUN. The ones left behind have a lot ahead of them. Think about tham for once, not you NO GOOD GUN.

[sevenveils]

Rosie control is impossible. That mouth will go off at the frop of a hat. Vile and venomous, this snake uses her position to state her trailer park views.

[wirepusher]

To say that more gun control would have prevented this would be the same as saying better imigration control would have prevented it. People are people and they are going to do terrible things. They will do them with or without a gun. They will do them no matter what country they are from.