Showing posts with label Tom Selleck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Selleck. Show all posts
Friday, January 18, 2013
Lawrence O'Donnell tears into one time NRA spokesman, and current board member, Tom Selleck.
Courtesy of MSNBC:
Actor Tom Selleck became the poster boy for the National Rifle Association–and the subject of controversial publicity–14 years ago, after two high students at Columbine High School murdered 13 people and injured 21 students. The Columbine massacre occurred a month after Tom Selleck appeared on the NRA ad with a rifle across his shoulder.
In addition to acting as the public spokesman, Tom Selleck is now a member of the Board of Directors of the NRA. And so, “the time has come to do what Rosie O’Donnell refused to do 14 years ago–question Tom Selleck’s humanity,” according to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.
In the past 14 years, a shooter killed 32 people and wounded 17 on the campus of Virginia Tech, setting the record for American gun massacres. Then on January 8, 2011, a shooter killed six and wounded 13, including Congressman Gabby Giffords. On July 20, 2012, a man using a hundred-round ammunition drum killed 12 people and wounded 58, setting another record for the highest number of people shot in an American gun massacre. Finally on December 14, 2012, a man killed 20 children and six teachers in a Connecticut elementary school. O’Donnell states that Selleck remained silent after those shootings.
You know I watched that original broadcast of the Rosie O'Donnell Show and I have to say at the time I kind of felt bad for Tom Selleck. Today I do not have a shred of sympathy for him left.
Lawrence is right, he needs to speak out and take responsibility for the organization that he represents.
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