Charlton Heston: "Freedom Ain't Broke" The Second Amendment Ain't Broke - NRA Zealots

My hero, Mr. Heston.

Charlton Heston was not just a man of words, he was a man of actions. That's why when he saw the lose of liberty looming, he jumped in to save it no matter what the cost would be to his own reputation.

This man was a true Patriot. Freedom of the individual. Governments derive their just power from the governed (the people). People should not fear their government, the government should fear the people.

He believed in personal freedom so much that he gave the last good years of his life to freedoms cause. He was basically spat on by the far left, and ridiculed by the media. He definitely served his country well; he was a true Patriot.
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High court strikes down gun ban.

District of Columbia v. Heller

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Antonin Gregory Scalia

"Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security and where gun violence is a serious problem," Scalia wrote. "That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct."



Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 -- April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theater and television. Heston is known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Initially a liberal Democrat, he later supported conservative politics and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.

Heston campaigned for Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and John F. Kennedy in 1960. Reportedly when an Oklahoma movie theater premiering his movie El Cid was segregated, he joined a picket line outside in 1961. Heston makes no reference to this in his autobiography, but describes traveling to Oklahoma City to picket segregated restaurants, much to the chagrin of Allied Artists, the producers of El Cid. During the civil rights march held in Washington, D.C. in 1963, he accompanied Martin Luther King Jr. In later speeches, Heston said he helped the civil rights cause, "long before Hollywood found it fashionable."

Following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Heston and actors Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas and James Stewart issued a statement calling for support of President Johnson's Gun Control Act of 1968. He opposed the Vietnam War and in 1969 was approached by the Democratic party to run for the U.S. Senate. He agonized over the decision and ultimately determined he could never give up acting. He is reported to have voted for Richard Nixon in 1972, though Nixon is unmentioned in his autobiography.

By the 1980s, Heston opposed affirmative action, supported gun rights and changed his political affiliation from Democratic to Republican. He campaigned for Republicans and Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.

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[philblunt420]

GoTimothy is responsible for more idiotic statements than Joe Biden.

[NamVetBuck]

Hey guy...that comment I posted was aimed at that Timmy crapster.

[djs259]

Heston is pure class.

[WillShakespeare2007]

@FeeFinger666 - "Gun control will not protect you against guns or agression, this is an ILLUSION." Did you read what I wrote? We had 39 gun deaths last year compared to 35,000 in the U.S. - so gun control is protecting me is clearly a fact not an illusions. How can you say that something that is proved to be working is an illusion?

Knife crime is a totally separate issue. How is it relevant in anyway? Drink driving is a also a bad thing - is that reason to allow guns?

[FeeFinger666]

@WillShakespeare2007 One thing about my country (Switzerland) ; as I told you, knives kill more than guns every year and nobody care about that. Every times, the medias relate stories of a man killing his wife with a gun but they never talk about the several agressions with knives you have EVERY DAY. You need a permit to buy a gun but not to buy a knife... This is stupid. Gun control will not protect you against guns or agression, this is an ILLUSION.

[FeeFinger666]

@WillShakespeare2007 Sorry to disappoint you dude, but I actualy live in Switzerland, and trust me, everything I told you about guns in MY country is right. Gun control is the illusion of security. Gun control is established by a law and just observing by law abiding citizens. Criminals doesn't care about the law and they won't hesitate to use guns to attack you. So, you have the right to defend you life - home - family, with the same force, so to keep and bear arms.

[WillShakespeare2007]

@FeeFinger666 - I disagree with everything you said. All EU countries have gun control to some extent and we are all democracies. Those with less gun control like France have far more gun deaths.

The simple fact are that in countries like the U.S. you are far more likely to be shot dead because of the easy access to guns.

The figures are 35,000 death p/a in the U.S. and 39 p/a in the U.K.

England has never had a school shooting not one person. So I support gun control.

[FeeFinger666]

@WillShakespeare2007 When a state wants guns control, it means that the State is scared of his own people. When people are free to possess guns, it's when they know they can live in harmony with their state, because they have choice, they can say what they want (free speech garantee). When a dictator access to power, the first thing he does: gun ban (like Hitler, Staline, Mao Tse Tung, etc. did)... Freedom prevails, and if you want to protect your rights, you need to have the right to bear arms.

[FeeFinger666]

@WillShakespeare2007 And also, see in Switzerland, this country is the third more armed in the world (more than 12 millions guns for only 7 million people...) and who many murders per years? less than 30. How many violent crimes commit with guns? less than 20 (or more, because strangers comes with guns they are not allowed to possess, not honnest swiss citizen). KNIVES kill more than GUNS every years in Switzerland.

[FeeFinger666]

@WillShakespeare2007 Less than one month after UK banned every guns from UK's homes, violent crimes (criminals and burglars WITH guns) increased by more than 40%. You can't say "we are a free people living in a free country" when you're unable to protect yourself against others. Guns insure you to protect your RIGHTS

[AnonymousShadow100]

Does any one have a full copy of this speach? I will pay for one. It was on youtube for a while in three parts but was removed. I wish I could see it again. Please let me know if anyone knows where I can get it or at least which speach it was and I will get a copy from the NRA.

[omegamann71]

I miss him so much