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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Note: This is also my column for the paper due out Wednesday, October 11th, but it's what I'm thinking about now, and how I feel.

I’m a firm believer in the fact that you should love everyone. Yes, even the ones who don’t love you back.

Although when applying that principle to my own life, there’s one person who really tests me on the matter. Someone who I admit, I have a hard time loving. But the strange thing is I’ve never met the woman in my life. We’ve never talked, never had a conversation, and I doubt she knows I exist. I e-mailed her once, but no reply back (yet) and even at that, she probably doesn’t even know my last name, address, age, or shoe size.

Her name is Rosie. Last name O’Donnell. She’s a talk show host in New York City. Back in the day she hosted the “Rosie O’Donnell Show” until it went off the air in about 2002. After that she took a break from television, and I pretty much stopped following her career unless I happened to catch her on some entertainment news program.

On the Rosie O’Donnell Show, Rosie had an image that was likeable, charming, and fun. She was funny, entertaining, and interesting to watch. This was also probably what made her show number one in the ratings. But just before Rosie took off from her show in 2002, she decided to make an announcement that would ensure her star status didn’t diminish. Rosie told everyone she was gay. It was something that many suspected and some already knew, but coming straight from the horse’s mouth, it was now undeniable.

After that, the Rosie I knew changed. The fun, entertaining, and interesting talk show host I knew every day after school was now a poster child for free speech – the bad kind.

Since 2002, Rosie has used to celebrity status as a spring board to speak out against things that pushed people’s buttons. She was suddenly a spokesperson for everything Christians didn’t like, apparently, and still called herself an American but loved insulting her political leader.

Rosie is probably most outspoken about an issue she talks about often: gun control. In light of recent tragic events, you can probably guess that Rosie had a field day. It didn’t take her long to push it in everyone’s face the top stories of the day, followed by her commentary “blame the guns, blame the guns!”

Rosie’s attacks were focused primarily on the NRA, (National Rifle Association) who are responsible for guns in America. Rosie’s main message is that it’s the NRA’s fault that so many people are being killed by guns today. She blames the government for not doing a good enough job in keeping guns under control.

I’m curious, however, if Rosie ever heard the quote “guns don’t kill people – people kill people.” It’s very true, I assure you. Sure the bullet leaves the barrel, but a gun is useless unless someone pulls the trigger. People like Rosie are quick to blame the gun companies, but yet they fail to realize they’re contributing to a society that is corrupt and fraudulent by nature.

People like that wonder why a shooting happens in a school, but yet are all for taking prayer out of the same schools the shootings happen at. I find it very ironic that amidst such a recent tragedy that met the same criteria I just mentioned, a church was opened to help students deal with everything that was going on.

Seems that people like Rosie know right where to run when something terrible happens, but don’t bother to go there beforehand, and ask it doesn’t happen in the first place.

Folks, recent school shootings in North America have been very tragic, and I’m not trying to change that fact. But people like Rosie O’Donnell are going to tell you this is a perfect example that stricter gun laws need to be in place. I assure you that the gun laws aren’t our problem. Don’t try to change the guns, change the people, and the guns will take care of themselves.

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