Constitutional Law

Charlton Heston roundup

Former NRA President Sandy Froman writes at TownHall of her her experience as Heston's VP, and of what Heston did for the organization in the years before his election.

Over at the [London] Times Online, Nick Hume has tribute from the British Left:

"Charlton Heston's obituarists worry that his acting career might be ?overshadowed? by his controversial stance against gun control. Let's hope so. Most of Heston's movie roles were as stiff as his chiselled jaw. But his rock-like defence of the right to bear arms was worthy of an award.

I say this not as a right-wing Republican, but as a Brit of the Left. Hollywood liberals demonised the man who was Moses for his pro-gun views. But that only shows how illiberal they have become. Anybody who retains enough liberal spirit to believe in individual freedom as the basis for a civilised society ought to have stood at Heston's right hand on this issue."

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on April 08, 2008 (boomark / email).