Charlton Heston - "Cold dead hands"?!
Question: Heston's most controversial role was not in a movie but as leader of the National Rifle Association, the gun-rights lobby group, from 1998 to 2003. He often stood at the podium at conventions, holding an antique flintlock rifle above his head and telling gun-control advocates they would not get his gun unless they could pry it "from my cold, dead hands." - Have they got it yet?
Answers: Heston's most controversial role was not in a movie but as leader of the National Rifle Association, the gun-rights lobby group, from 1998 to 2003. He often stood at the podium at conventions, holding an antique flintlock rifle above his head and telling gun-control advocates they would not get his gun unless they could pry it "from my cold, dead hands." - Have they got it yet?
I agree with Barry.
It is sad that so many Ameriguns revere a man who stood for the right to keep an object whose sole purpose is to kill.
And many will call you "crude" for posting this question, but you are not crude. This was a man who, after children had been gunned down, went to towns to say how great guns were. What about the memory of the dead children? Is that not more crude?
Should burn him with it up his ***
Naw...they don't want that old piece of junk. Its hanging somewhere in a NRA Museum.
He spoke as a sport hunter, not a killer. That other fool made money from portraying Heston as a gun toter having a share in killings. Killers are killers, they kill because they want to kill -not because Heston held a gun above his head.
Heston great actor and crap at polatics
dude, soylent green is...people.
Why didn't he use it on his RUG.
What will the NRA do now. That movie quote was practically made for them.
Say what you want, but he was one of the
great actors of his time.
Compare him in "The Omega Man" for example to
Will Smith playing the same role in "I Am Legend"...
wait! there is NO comparison...Heston gets the Oscar.
As far as his stance on gun-control...he was simply invoking the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment which (for now) guarantees that we, military and private citizens, can own them.
The problem is with guns in the hands of criminals or those who want to use them for ill-gotten gains, not hunters, gun enthusiasts or collectors.
The Founding Fathers did not anticipate a society where non-militia men and women would become gun owners and would kill each other off by the thousands...
how could they, we're talking around 1787 or so when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were adopted and this era did not compare to the concrete jungle of today's society where in some neighborhoods, it's "kill or be killed!".
His "cold dead hands" speech was the kind of talk that led to outrages like the Oklahoma bombing and school shootings.
We'll obey the law as long as it suits us, might be their motto.
Some Americans act as though their government was an alien thing imposed on them.
What a miserable,drab talentless man he was,crap actor,over rated,no sparkle.
what i'd really like to type her yahoo wouldn't allow so i'll just say that your questions shows the type of ignorance that MEN like charlton heston fought against.
a firearm can lay on a table for a hundred years and never hurt a soul, but one a**hole picks it up and kills someone, and the !@#$%%^^&&*( liberal media and mindset of some (bleep) wants the firearm banned because it's what took the persons life.
what a bunch of bull chips.
i just have to ask, if we'd have fought the british with sticks would we not still be under the queens rule?
if someone breaks into your home to rape your child, spouse, or you and then kill you, would you not want a fighting chance at protecting yourself and your family. or are you the one who is going to wait the 30 minutes that it will take for barney to find his bullet and put down his danged doughnut?
I hope the s o b who comes in doesn't use the vaseline on your cornhole.
think about this the next time you want to make sarcastic comments about people who have fought for your and mines right to protect ourselves.
Hello,
(ANS) Good ridden's to bad rubbish!!
**Charlton Heston's championing of gun ownership was sick & perverted he didn't or couldn't admit that guns are & were responsible for millions of deaths in the USA alone.
**Perhaps now he has died the gun lobby will be mortally wounded weakened & die?? (we can only live in hope!).
**Perhaps NOW there might be a small chance that attitudes towards gun ownership in the US might just have a chance to change for the better.
**I for one wont be weeping for the passing of Charlton Heston.
Ivan
he was a good actor ,the gun laws here in uk are very tight , and i like guns etc but i have said many times ,if you take all the guns from all the good guys , all the bad guys would still have them ,there not bothered about the law if they want to shoot somebody THEY will and people like me .or collectors etc will be punished just because we follow the law and get rid of our" nasty" guns ,i know one thing this aint gonna be picked as best answer lol
What a crude thing to say about someone who just passed away. A lot of people believe in the right to bear arms, which is in the U.S. constitution. I believe we should have the right to have a gun for protection, if we want to. Otherwise, it would be nothing but criminals with guns and the private average joe citizen would not have anything to protect themselves against criminal thugs.
I do not own a gun and have never owned a gun, nor have I ever fired a gun or even touched one. My parents never owned guns.. but I believe everyone deserves their constitutional right to have one.
You're post is crude, demeaning and just malicious. You should be ashamed of yourself.
I totally agree with amber & hearts, i think you are just plain nasty. wish to be talked about your parents or yourselves in that way just few hours after passing away??
Besides, he has been, (sorry HE IS) one of the greats of the classic movies history.
You all should show some respect.
you ahgg!
Maybe this was when they first noticed he was showing signs of dementia!!!!!!
That quote is the only thing they show and he didn't do "often".
He march with MLK.
He was for the 2nd amendment and for civil rights.
If gun control works why are the cities with tight gun control crimes go up and with those with conceal weapons laws goes down?
I know this wasted but have some respect for the dead.