"It is difficult to argue with a child, but Tom did an admirable job." == Adults make up their opinion based on their own experience. How many times Tom had been shot before? True or false? His opinion here is a repeat of what somebody else said.
Tom was acting respectful while being attacked for doing a promo for the oldest civil rights org in the nation's history, Rosie was acting like a child trying to school the adult when clearly she has no facts, Or knowledge on the issue!
She gutted her own career with that outing. Tom honored himself, and he honored the audience in general, by noting how they were NOT being 'entertained' by the interplay Rosie brought forward. Tom Selleck's a complete class act.
I remember this interview. Rosie totally sandbagged Tom. He was not expecting this conversation and was taken completely off guard. Tom completely outclassed her. Was obviously head and shoulders above and Rosie was out of her League. Thank you Mr. Selleck 🙏
She a terrible job of debating the issue. Just wanted to attack...Tom was much calmer and considerate. She could have learned from him how to discuss. He often said he "understood how she felt" and then spoke what he felt. She was like "you cant say"....."why do you"......She blamed and accused.
@@user-du1mz5zx7s got to love when people use generalization as the answer to all things. 1. I say Tom, aka Tom Selleck, is a class act and a true gentleman. Did I include any others names, groups, or inferred to any political affiliation in my comment ? Or does the word “Tom” has a new meaning in 2023 that most of us are not aware of ? 2. Similarly, does the word or name “Tom” also mean cop in 2023? To be fair, he does played a Police Commissioner on TV, so figure I ask. Perhaps the name “House” mean a doctor in our Urban dictionary that I am not hip enough to understand 3. There are good cop and bad cop, similar to good people and bad people, or are all cop bad, period. Even the one that save a kids from a burning building or someone else family member ? 4. And lastly, what is consider slave wages for fast food employee for context ?
I remember when this happened. Tom was a class act. She was hoping to get him aggravated and lose control but he was in total control of himself. And we all know how Rosie's career ended up.
I need to look up narcissism again. Then I need to hear from the people you know that said this. Then I need to see where/when they worked on Magnum P.I. Then I need to hear from Mr. Selleck...I know of a friend who knows someone who knew who met whom when is not a factual statement. Just saying...
@@SpikedCollar666 He turned down the role of Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Arc because it would have ended Magnum PI and cost the entire crew their jobs. He also bought his cast mates Porches when the show ended. Sounds like the people you know are very unappreciative.
Can’t believe I never saw this until now. Tom outclassed Rosie on so many levels. Her agenda was completely shut down because of an informed, educated, and composed gentleman.
The good thing about this interview is that it lead to Rosie's career going down the tubes. Mr. Selleck showed a lot of class in the way he controlled himself.
‘I’m sorry that I deliberately attacked you on national television and that you can’t find it within you to accept my fake apology’ is pretty much what she said.
"It's an act of moral vanity to assume that someone that disagrees with your political agenda cares any less than you do." Brilliant statement. It's been many years since dialogue on American TV even approached the kind of complexity that might prompt this kind of statement. I don't think producers even invite people on air anymore who might even say something like that.
Happens all the time. Good actors need to reinforce that in every interview (like Tom Cruise had to do) they attend. Refuse them turning you into a political pawn.
I recall when this happened. He was on another show (I think plugging the movie) the following morning, and his voice was horse. He tore someone a new one, off camera. 😂
_"We need to register guns, so when a crime is committed, we can trace who owns it!"_ That's such a great idea! She's a genius! So now we just have to find a way to get criminals to register their guns!
We also need to force bad people to leave their guns at a crime scene. Either that, or test fire EVERY GUN BARREL, and keep a record of the bullet markings. Better update that every year, to account for wear & tear on barrel rifling.
As a career prosecutor in Virginia I prosecuted criminals who used guns to commit crimes for thirty years and can only recall ONE case where the criminal used a gun registered to him. ALL the rest were stolen or acquired through "street" purchases.
In fairness, where I’m from you cannot buy a firearm without a license that is granted by the police. You have to have a permit granted for a gun shop to be able to legally sell you a firearm. I don’t see why that’s a bad idea
@@MilitaryPolice23 the point isn't that that's a bad idea. That very much depends on how hard those laws make it to own a gun. The point is criminals buy guns on the streets. It's not much of a hassle for them to own guns. They don't have all those legal barriers, they don't register guns, or whatever. It's everybody else that has it hard. The potential victims, wanting to own guns for self defense, have to go through hoops to own one. And then they may also have to be really careful about using them in self-defense, because they might be arrested for a long time just because they neglected some stupid detail in the laws. The more of a hassle it is to own a gun, the less inclined people will be to own one. And when it's prohibitively hard to own a gun, the result is you have a society of armed criminals and defenseless victims. And as the saying goes, _"when every second counts, the police is only ten minutes away"._ When you get attacked, you're on your own. The police only deals with the aftermath, which may involve you or your corpse. Basically, the people who do commit crimes and should not be carrying guns, are the least affected by gun laws.
Tom calmly tried to share his views after being asked to weigh in. Despite being interrupted constantly, he remained calm and respectful. He is a class act.
Yes he was a class act, and that's why Republicans lose elections. Rather than standing up and calling out the authoritarians and communists for what they are, they sit back and be courteous. Those days are coming to an end, I hope.
@@squidly1117the silent majority wants their country back and if the Gov keeps pushing then they will retaliate "when the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty"
The fact that tom understands the link between suicide steadily increasing and the lack of value for human life in our culture causing a rise in active shootings this long ago is astounding and a testament to his intelligence. It's a multi faceted issue and rosie seems to be looking for her lost keys by the street lamp cause "that's where the light is".
@@davidlamberson5435 your comment is so vague I cant tell if its directed at my comment or the views expressed in the video, either way it doesn't change the fbi ucr statistics on homicide, only 300-450 Americans are murdered by ALL rifles of any type compared to falls from a ladder at 300 per year........
To be fair stuff Tom is saying was already talked about in 2nd amendment circles, and such as counter arguments already at this era fairly commonly. It was just already back then rare to see actor been for gun rights or even been conservative so you rarely hear these from celebrity. Hes not wrong though
I remember watching this the day it aired. No matter how many years go by,it still looks like an ambush. It was no surprise that people didn't want to be guests anymore.
I'm still incredibly angry at Rosie O'Donnell for ambushing Tom Selleck. When the network gave her a show she was interviewed by Larry King. He asked her what she hoped to accomplish with her show, and she said that she hoped she could provide a place where people could express themselves and feel at home. She failed miserably.
When Rosie asked "Don't the guns bear some responsibility?", Tom should have asked her if "the spoon bears the responsibility for her obesity". The gun and the spoon are only tools in the hands of men.
to protect our selves from the most powerful government we need the most powerful guns, and to protect Rosie from obesity she needs the smallest spoon.
"We need to register guns, so when a crime is committed, we can trace who owns it!", we do that here in Britain, and no matter how strictly you control the ownership of firearms the CRIMINAL will ALWAYS find a way around the laws.
*Rosie O' Donnell blaming guns for violence is like blaming Rosie O' Donnell for being fat on spoons ! People need to take responsibility for their actions instead of deferring blame on a mere tool or object and in turn - banning those objects (guns), that innocent law abiding people happen to own.*
You, and the majority of the others above, are so right. She thinks she is so right, but then again, she campaigned for Nobozo and his agenda. The Japanese Emperor and Hitler both said if America didn't have so many guns, they would've invaded us. "500 bullets a minute"? Where the hell is she getting her information?
Tom should've shoved this down Rosie's well greased throat; "Knives kill more people than guns. Cars kill more people than guns. DOCTORS kill more people than guns. Let's register them all so that we know who to prosecute when they kill!" She's just like so many other liberal, left wing, UNINFORMED idiots.
I love the spoon analogy! Rosie was so full of crap, she clearly had an agenda to sandbag Selleck and she simply did not have the gray matter to carry on a rational discussion. She was not trying to discuss, she was trying to WIN and basically get people to agree with her. That single mindedness made her look like an ass ( which she is). Selleck could have and should have just gone off on her. I hate it when liberals see everyone who owns a gun as wrong. I grew up on a farm and used a gun my whole life, in all that time I never once killed a thing other than putting animals out of their misery. Does that make me a gun nut!? This interview ruined her career and it serves her right.
Tommy Petersen You are so right that bitch is just plain stupid and ignorant on all counts.With the life she leads she has the balls to mouth off on guns go figure.
She’s a nasty piece of work. The way you can see him physically restraining himself from removing her hands from his shoulder every time she touches him. No wonder there’s no common ground, with people like her and Pelosi and Maxine Waters braying away and accusing people they don’t agree with.
@@raidersJScamo Well said Sir. They were trying to trap him ...smh. He's an actor in the Hollywood entertainment industry. Absolute lack of class on O'Donnell's part. She knew damn well what she was doing. She's pushing her keepers agenda.
@Late to the Game The problem is nongun people are trying to wright laws for gun people. If you have no clue of what your talking about how are you going to legislate it. The fact is that "Common Sense Gun Laws" do nothing to stop gun violence. Criminals dont care about the laws.
@@danielmelton5573 They "feel" and "believe" things which are not so. I paraphrase Ronald Reagan. Mature adults do not make decisions based on how they feel. But no one suggested we're dealing with mature adults. Maturity is a rare commodity these days.
I remember this and When I later found out Rosie had armed guards around her home and when she traveled I lost what little respect I had for her. She’s basically said she wants all guns to be taken away but I still want my armed bodyguards?!? Tom was so far above her in both class and overall knowledge of the gun control issue.
She was trying to shame him into her point of view, he wasn’t ashamed. Never be ashamed of your opinions on things but always take the time to revisit them
@@eamon2please, nobody knew what whoopi was doing until her holocaust denialism. Bitch is irrelevant and has been the entire 22 years I've been alive.
I don’t think the left understands that. They just passed an “anti-lynching” law. Um, isn’t that murder? Murder is already illegal? It’s kind of like hate crimes. Aren’t all or most crimes already involving hate?
It’s also illegal already to bring a gun into school. It’s an amazing feat to think that more laws will top criminals. Laws don’t stop criminals it just provides us a common understanding of punishment after the fact.
Almost 25 years after this appearance Tom is 13 seasons into his leading role on one of TV's top series and Rosie makes cameos and occasionally even lands recurring roles in series (though none I've heard of).
The 2nd amendment was written pertaining to muskets.....TRUE! That's because the "enemy" had muskets. Today, we need modern weapons because??????........wait for it..........the "enemy" has modern weapons.
There were actually weapons that could fire 10 to 20 rounds very quickly at that time without reloading. It wasn't just muskets and clearly was for all guns throughout their evolution to today with well regulation
+Bryce Pasta I was just saying that they had more than muskets back then so the second amendment applies to the evolution of firearms throughout history
The conservative, ACTIVIST, rat bastards sitting on the Supreme Court are the ones taking away your rights. If those bone headed decisions had been made by the liberals on the court, you would be all pissy pants screaming about your rights. But because the conservatives are trashing them, you pay no attention. Google it. Educate yourself.
I have always loved Tom Selleck and wondered why he never got bigger roles. Hollywood has a way of pushing aside those who politely refuse to go along with the herd.
Rosie even said "the 2nd amendment was for us to have muskets for when the British people came over". I totally agree. The musket was one of the most advanced personal firearms out at that time. They wanted us to have AR 15s!
Nah, it was written up in the context of the time, which was for the use of muskets when the British making a counter attack was a possibility, since America as a country is different, don't you think that legislation should change to reflect that? In the UK, after Ian Hamilton killed many school children with his gun, gun ownership was much more restricted, where as in the US, evn though school teenagers are killing their fellow classmates each year, Americans hold onto the second amendment even though the time it was written in was more than 200 years ago. Either, you have school children going through shooter drills, during a time when they should be full of innocence, or you make some changes to gun availability to stop dozens of school children being killed within a couple of minutes. It's a stark choice which America has, it's either rapid fire guns being available, or the protection of the innocence of school children and school teenagers. Currently, it's the innocence of school children which is losing out.
@@timothydraper3687restricting guns won't stop shootings. It will only effect law abiding citizens. Gun nuts aren't supporters of death, they are supporters of freedom. The logic of gun restriction is flawed. When someone drives a big truck through a crowd, we focus on the motivation of the perpetrator, not their ability to rent a truck. When a pressure cooker bomb goes off, we focus on the perpetrator, not their ability to buy pressure cookers. Why do we focus on the gun when a shooting occurs? The AR is only used in less than 3 percent of gun deaths. Are gun control people really interested in senseless killings, or taking away people's rights to further a political strategy?
@@matthewcochran3325 I'm from outside of the US, so I have no biases regarding how I want life in the US to be, and it seems crazy to me that the people of America seem to be allowing school shootings to happen each year, without any kind of changes to how easy it is to get hold of guns, while still allowing home owners to self protect and responsible adults to concealed carry. Since people can't drive trucks into schools, or smuggle pressure cooker bombs, I don't see how they are applicable analogies, or even where analogies are helpful, given the manner in which guns can be smuggled into schools. I honestly think you Americans are nuts when it's to do with the 2nd amendment, it's a historical bit lof legislation and school children are being shot each year. I think banning guns like has near enough happened in the UK would be a wrong move, as that would mean the millions of guns floating around would end up in the hands of criminals, but, multiple school shootings a year has got to be reason to consider changes to America's approach to guns, or else as a nation you're saying school shootings are a price worth paying for things staying as they are, it seems to me.
@@matthewcochran3325 Isn't the logic of a gun nut being a supporter of freedom flawed as well, when the 2nd ammendment relates to taking up arms against th British 200 odd years ago? Britain has not interest in invading anybody.
The second amendment isn't just about guns, it is an issue of freedom. You're correct in saying there are too many guns to suggest a ban as a solution. What do you suggest, then? I think dealing with the motivation to hurt other people is a logical place to start. That is why I brought up trucks and pressure cookers. I'm looking at violence in a general sense. In the UK, shootings have always been on a smaller scale than in the US. They ban guns and shootings go away, right? But what about knife crime? It seems to me that knife crime picked up where gun crime left off and now the UK is banning knives. Technically the UK did a lot to stop gun crime, but not much was done to stop violent crime. I'm not giving up my freedom just to substitute one form of crime for another.
I remember hearing about this when it happened. Now that I've seen this, things haven't changed with the attack on our rights. Tom did a great job remaining calm and trying to explain his views.
Wow! That is absolutely the perfect example of what class vs garbage looks like. Polar opposites. That man is amazing. Imagine the tables turned ,how she would have reacted to him bullying her. I don’t believe I would have been able to sit through that the way he did. Amazing that was allowed to happen.
Or, sat there until she asked me why I wasn't talking anymore. Then ask her if anyone ever taught her any manners. Stuff a very large sock in it Rosie.
Rosie you insulted him and you talked over him. Nor did you give him an chance to answer your questions. Learning starts with listening you weren't listening!
+Loretta Perrone That's just to show indeed how classy he was...To be honest I myself got insulted by her behavior as an interviewer...bad Rosie to baaaad!
The way a true AMERICAN freedom loving intelligent respectful person would carry themselves. I'm gonna go watch Quigley down under 5x. New found respect for Mr. Selleck
Selleck has evidently taken time to think the issues through. Just exactly the kind of person who is 100% safe with a firearm. Better to have access to effective self defence than need a gun and not have one.
I remember my dad saying he took a gun to school to hunt on the way home. He put it in the corner of the room with the others who were doing the same. He's long gone now, this was back in the 1930s.
@@darrellepickering8433 In rural Colo in the early 70's we would take them to school for hunter ed class and would go shooting with the instructor after class.. Keys were left in the trucks and gun racks behind the window was always full..
Tom Selleck was 10x more of a gentleman than Rosie deserved. She is NOT a lady. If she were to invite someone like me on her show, not only would she be overpowered and shouted down, but her argument would be DESTROYED with facts an logic that she would have no defense against.
Tom hit the issue right on the head. We have a mental health crisis in our society. We have got to figure out how to deal with people who have mental issues before it goes too far.
What Rosie doesn’t understand is that a hunting rifle can take someone out from a far greater distance than an “assault rifle” Now if she took a moment to actually close her mouth and listen she may have actually learned something. The problem with always having the “right answer” is that you never get to hear any of the questions to be able to determine if your answers matches any of them😮.
The 'register a car' argument also fails for the obvious reason that vehicular modes of transportation are not unaliable rights but more importantly; If we treated guns like cars we'd: *Only have to register them to use on public infrastructure *be allowed to own and operate any form, in any configuration on private land *be able to cross state lines with any configuration or attachments(albeit on a trailer in regards to a car...so i guess in a guncase for argument sake) *have no limit on the amount or type of 'fuel' they use *have no limit on the amount or type you can own. *private transfers and sales are completely independent with no governmental oversight * safe handling courses taught(and sometimes required) in public schools * totally fine to bring to registered ones onto government and school property * pay property tax( the only bad one on the list) * have governmental financial assistance for the manufacturingn industry * have massive hobbyist\collectors groups engage in open, public display(ala; gun equivilent of a car show or those old guys that drive their hot rods 10mph under the speedlimit together on sundays around here) *import of certain models in certain configurations would be regulated LESS than they currently are for guns *be able to buy any part, for any model, with absolutely no tracking or registering of components *no minumum waiting time or background check for sales So yeah...maybe we SHOULD treat guns like cars. Overall I think it'd be a win for the 2A community. But lieftists and fools can not wrap their minds around logical extentions of their own idiocy.
Muskets were top flight military hardware when the second amendment was written, so following that logic AR15s are actually a bit behind the times! Her argument about the Brits reinvading is ludicrous, you'd need a lot more than muskets to defend the US against any 21st century national army! I always considered the 2nd amendment to actually be to act a a brake on totalitarianism tbf
Right. It was for “muskets when the British came over in 1800” guess what they also had. Muskets. What do other militaries have now and at that time. Tom is incredible.
Tom Selleck is a scholar and a gentleman. Love him as an actor. I am impressed by how calm and logical he remained. What a horrible woman he had to deal with there.
He's calm, collected and no signs of paranoia. A lot has changed about the tenor of both sides of the argument but the excuses remain the same and the problem keeps getting worse. The "cultural" problem no one talks about is corporatization of society, i.e. PROFITS no matter the cost.
