Charlton Heston Quotes
I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.
Heston, Charlton. Keynote Address. 129th National Rifle Association Annual Meetings & Exhibits, 20 May 2000, Charlotte, NC.
The Republicans had been very effective in staffing off all attempts to strengthen gun control legislation. In addition, in a number of states they passed legislation reducing the voting days, times and places and requiring driver’s licenses or equivalent picture ID at the time of registration voting. Election day, not being a work holiday in America, it is harder for less affluent people to arrange their schedules and get to polling places, so restrictions tend to reduce their voting more so than for affluent citizens. The former tend not to vote for Republicans, so this was a very effective political strategy, albeit many questioned the morality, the fairness, the legality and the long term value to the nation.
There had been a major drive to tighten gun control and register guns in Canada, regulate how guns are stored and how they are transported. The percentage of gun-related deaths went down in the subsequent years. By American standards however they were already far lower before any of the gun control legislation was enacted.
Charlton Heston was an American actor and political activist. As a Hollywood star, he appeared in almost 100 films over the course of 60 years. He played Moses in the epic film The Ten Commandments (1956), for which he received his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. He also starred in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Secret of the Incas (1954), Touch of Evil (1958) with Orson Welles, The Big Country (1958), Ben-Hur (1959), for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor, El Cid (1961), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Planet of the Apes (1968), The Omega Man (1971) and Soylent Green (1973).
