I Guess They Will Have to Pry his Cold, Dead Fingers...

Hey, I loved "Ben Hur" however, I am also looking forward to
gun control. Perhaps now, since the most famous spokesperson for
NRA has gone, we'll get someone more sensible to represent a new NRA -
No Riffle Association.

Frisco?????????????/


I live in Northern California, not Northern Texas!


Well,let's see, they could bury him with that rifle he held up at the NRA convention after the Columbine tragedy. Now talk about having no respect for the dead...

Soylent Green was a great movie though - and the concept isn't that far
fetched, is it?

Well,let's see, they could bury him with that rifle he held up at the NRA convention after the Columbine tragedy. Now talk about having no respect for the dead...



I mourn his death, he did do some decent things for civil rights but my image of him that I will remember the most is the one above. That, and his bad wooden acting and over-acting.

Cold dead hands the first thing that came to mind? Then you're not viewing it in context. No one killed him to take his gun - he did his thing till the end - the day is his.

I despise this playground-rules crap - you'll call weakness weakness, in the sense that he's dead and that's bad for him, but someone wants to hold onto a little instrument of self defense and it's out of order.

Heston campaigned for Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in 1956 and John F. Kennedy in 1960.[10] When an Oklahoma movie theater premiering his movie was segregated, he joined a picket line outside in 1961.[11] 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."[12]

In 1968, following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Heston appeared on The Joey Bishop Show and, along with fellow actors Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas and James Stewart, called for public support for President Johnson's Gun Control Act of 1968.[13][14] He opposed the Vietnam War and said he voted for Richard Nixon in 1972.[15]

By the 1980s, Heston opposed affirmative action, supported gun rights and changed his political affiliation from Democratic to Republican.[16] He campaigned for Republicans and Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan,[17] George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.[18]

Heston resigned from Actors Equity, claiming the union's refusal to allow a white actor to play a Eurasian role in "Miss Saigon" was "obscenely racist."[19] He said CNN's telecasts from Baghdad were "sowing doubts" about the allied effort in the 1990-91 Gulf War.[19]

At a Time Warner stockholders meeting, he castigated the company for releasing an Ice-T album which included the song "Cop Killer", which depicted the killing of police officers.[20]

According to his autobiography In the Arena, Heston recognized the right of freedom of speech exercised by others. In a 1997 speech, he rhetorically deplored a culture war he said was being conducted by a generation of media, educators, entertainers, and politicians against:

"...the God fearing, law-abiding, Caucasian, middle- class Protestant-or even worse, evangelical Christian, Midwestern or Southern- or even worse, rural, apparently straight-or even worse, admitted heterosexuals, gun-owning-or even worse, NRA-card-carrying, average working stiff-or even worse, male working stiff-because, not only don't you count, you are a down-right obstacle to social progress. Your voice deserves a lower decibel level, your opinion is less enlightened, your media access is insignificant, and frankly, mister, you need to wake up, wise up, and learn a little something from your new-America and until you do, would you mind shutting up?"[21]

In an address to students at Harvard Law School entitled Winning the Cultural War, Heston expressed his disdain for political correctness, stating "If Americans believed in political correctness, we'd still be King George's boys - subjects bound to the British crown."[22] He stated "Political correctness is tyranny with manners".[23] He went on to say that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone else's pride.
Heston accepting a presentation rifle at 2000 NRA convention with the now well-known exclamation "From my cold, dead hands!"
Heston accepting a presentation rifle at 2000 NRA convention with the now well-known exclamation "From my cold, dead hands!"

Heston was the President and spokesman of the NRA from 1998 until he resigned in 2003. At the 2000 NRA convention, he raised a rifle over his head and declared that the Bill Clinton administration would take away his Second Amendment rights "from my cold, dead hands."[24] In announcing his resignation in 2003, he again raised a rifle over his head, repeating the five famous words of his 2000 speech.[24] He was an honorary life member.[25][26]

In the 2002 documentary film Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore interviewed Heston in his home, asking him about an April, 1999 NRA meeting held in Denver, Colorado, shortly after the Columbine high school massacre. Moore criticized Heston for the perceived thoughtlessness in the timing and location of the meeting. Heston, on-camera, excused himself and walked out on the interview. Moore was later criticized for his perceived ambush of the actor.[27][28]

Actor George Clooney joked about Heston having Alzheimer's Disease. When questioned, Clooney said Heston deserved whatever was said about him for his involvement with the NRA.[29] Heston responded by saying Clooney lacked "class," and said he felt sorry for Clooney, as Clooney had as much of a chance of developing Alzheimer's as anyone else.[30]

Heston opposed abortion and gave the introduction to a 1987 pro-life documentary by Bernard Nathanson called Eclipse of Reason which focuses on late-term abortions. Heston served on the Advisory Board of Accuracy in Media, a conservative media watchdog group founded by Reed Irvine.

Roxxxanne wrote:

Well,let's see, they could bury him with that rifle he held up at the NRA convention after the Columbine tragedy. Now talk about having no respect for the dead...



I mourn his death, he did do some decent things for civil rights but my image of him that I will remember the most is the one above. That, and his bad wooden acting and over-acting.

Shocking taste, Roxanne, but I am afraid I had to admit the cold, dead hands was the first thing I thought of when I heard about his death.


I hadn't heard he did anything for civil rights.....can you talk more about that?

Hey, I loved "Ben Hur" however, I am also looking forward to
gun control. Perhaps now, since the most famous spokesperson for
NRA has gone, we'll get someone more sensible to represent a new NRA -
No Riffle Association.

The NRA is one of America's leading civil rights organizations.

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The NRA is one of America's leading civil rights organizations.

Oh really o-ralloy? Would you point me to an amicus brief or two filed on the NRAs behalf in defense of say, First or Fourth Amendment Rights, other thatn those pertaining to gun rights?

dlowan wrote:

Roxxxanne wrote:

Well,let's see, they could bury him with that rifle he held up at the NRA convention after the Columbine tragedy. Now talk about having no respect for the dead...



I mourn his death, he did do some decent things for civil rights but my image of him that I will remember the most is the one above. That, and his bad wooden acting and over-acting.

Shocking taste, Roxanne, but I am afraid I had to admit the cold, dead hands was the first thing I thought of when I heard about his death.


I hadn't heard he did anything for civil rights.....can you talk more about that?

The NRA is one of America's leading civil rights organizations.