Gun Violence | Gun Ownership Increases Personal Safety

Actress and talk show host] Rosie O’Donnell is only the latest liberal to be vociferously in favor of gun control for other people—and yet ready to use firearms for their own protection. Others have included columnist Carl Rowan and Adolph Ochs Sulzberger of the New York Times, whose newspaper has been 200 percent behind gun control laws for years.

Rosie O’Donnell has hired a security guard to protect her young son and the guard has applied for a gun permit. However, children of famous people are by no means the only ones at risk. A recent study showed a 15-year-old black...

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