George
Orwell's Animal Farm was right on target about the leaders of the
gun control movement.
* Rosie O'Donnell has a private security guard who applied for a permit to carry a pistol. Rosie also lives in a gated community because she's a wealthy and important celebrity, one of the limousine liberal aristocrats who thinks her life and safety are more important than yours.
* Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), a rich man's rich boy who never did a lick of honest work in his life: his security guard was detained (but not prosecuted) for carrying a machine pistol into a government building in Washington, DC.
* Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) received a bomb threat, so she used her influence to get a San Franciso pistol permit, instead of doing what she thinks commoners and peasants should do: play "911 roulette" and hope the police don't say, "You're on your own," as they did in Los Angeles, Crown Heights, and Central Park.
* Washington Post columnist Carl "Warning Shot" Rowan was not convicted for having an unregistered pistol in Washington DC, or for using it to shoot a trespasser with a "warning shot." (In most jurisdictions, you are not allowed to shoot someone over a nonviolent misdemeanor.)
* HCI spokesman Joseph D. McNamara: "As much as I oppose the average person's having a gun, I recognize that some people have a legitimate need to own one. A wealthy corporate executive who fears his family might get kidnapped is one such person. A Hollywood celebrity who has to protect himself from kooks is another." -- Joseph D. McNamara (San Jose, CA ex-Police Chief, and HCI spokesman), Safe and Sane (book) ,1984, p. 71 (from the Internet, emphasis is mine)