Rosie O'Donnell, a staunch gun control advocate, is defending the concealed weapon permit her son's bodyguard applied for.
"Whether or not my family is in need of armed guards, that doesn't change my position on gun control," O'Donnell told People magazine. "It's not inconsistent."
National Rifle Association officials and others have accused the talk show host of hypocrisy since The Greenwich Time, her local paper in Connecticut, reported May 25 a bodyguard who will accompany her 5-year-old son to kindergarten has applied for a gun permit.
O'Donnell says the bodyguard will not carry the gun to school. She told People in its issue out Friday that her son may change schools because of the hubbub.
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DESERET NEWS, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2000