"Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe," Dianne Feinstein said, (Associated Press, 11/18/93). "If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an out right ban, picking up every one of them...I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here." (60 Minutes, 2/5/95). She wants to ban guns? Fair enough. If she feels that strongly against having a gun, why did she carry a .38 S&W revolver when promoting gun legislation to control us unruly peasants? "I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me." Her reasoning for carrying a concealed weapon makes sense (self-defense), but what makes her life any valuable than the rest of ours? To be fair, Feinstein has since given up her CCW, but if you were a Senator and had a taxpayer funded security detail, I guess you wouldn’t need to be carrying a .38 revolver.
Now take everyone's favorite action hero, Sly Stallone. Access Hollywood has a film clip of Stallone in London: "Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there." However, an LA Weekly article from December 1998, states that Rambo has received his license to carry from Chief Cooke of Culver City. (Unfortunately for Sly, the CCW covers only handguns, so he'll have to leave his RPG-7 and M-60 at home. At least he knows how to box like a mother). Double standard? He should have said, “Until America, door to door, takes every handgun except for mine.”
Let’s not forget America's nicest talk show personality, Rosie O'Donnell. According to an E! news article back in May of 2000, Rosie has hired an armed bodyguard to accompany her son to school. Rosie, who is a strong proponent of gun control, addresses the issue of hypocrisy when she felt the people should be disarmed, while a hired gun is sitting in class (unarmed while on school grounds, she promises) to protect her son. This is what she had to say: "I don't personally own a gun," O'Donnell says. "But if you are qualified, licensed and registered, I have no problem." However, back in 1999, she felt differently: "I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison." Also that year as quoted in the Ottawa Sun: “I think there should be a law…that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns." Rosie thinks guns are OK only if they are guarding her son from other feisty (possibly gun-toting?) kindergarteners. Rosie is an official emcee with the Million Mom March.