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NEWS MEDIA DEMONIZES SEMIAUTOMATIC FIREARMS
"Teddy Roosevelt hunted in the last century with a semiautomatic
rifle.  Most deer rifles are semiautomatic ... it's become a
demonized phrase.  The media distorts that and the public ill
understands it."
(NBC "Meet the Press" / 5-18-97)
GUN CONTROL LAWS IGNORE TRUTH OF FOUNDING FATHERS
"You know, the Bill of Rights guarantees every citizen the right
to own and bear firearms.  It doesn't say anything about how
many, how much you can pay for them.  That's in the Bill of
Rights.  That's a sacred document in our country.  There's no
other country in the world that has such document.  And you know
what it's purpose is?  To prevent the federal government from
interfering with private citizens' rights ... If you will read
what the Founding Fathers wrote when they were writing it --
Jefferson, Mason, Madison, Patrick Henry, Tom Paine -- every one
of them wrote at great length that they were talking about the
individual rights of individual citizens."
(NBC "Meet the Press" / 5-18-97)
MISSION TO PASS BILL OF RIGHTS TO THE NEXT GENERATION
"We have to pass on to America in the 21st century the same Bill
of Rights that those wise, old, dead white guys that invented
this country passed on to us."
(NBC "Meet the Press," / 5-18-97)
HESTON TAKING ON TIME WARNER'S PROMOTION OF "COP KILLER" ALBUM
(Conversation between host Tony Snow and Charlton Heston)
SNOW: "You have one of the great voices in the entertainment
world.  A few years ago, you showed up at a Time Warner
stockholders meeting and started reading the lyrics from a rap
album and just froze everybody in their tracks."
HESTON: "That was that terrible album by Ice T called `Cop
Killer.'  And I'm very proud of this, I really am.  I owned some
Time Warner stock and I went in and confronted their full board
meeting and read the lyrics.  I can't repeat them on television."
SNOW: "No, you can't."
HESTON: "And I shamed Time Warner, the largest entertainment
conglomerate in the world, into firing Ice T and dropping the
album.  Now, he threatened to kill me.  He hasn't done that yet."
SNOW: "I believe your quote was something like, `Let him try.'"
HESTON: "Well, maybe I scared him.  And I haven't gotten a job
from Warner Brothers since or a good notice in Time, but I'm as
proud of that as anything I've ever done."
CHASTISING NATIONAL NEWS MEDIA FOR THEIR ANTI-GUN BIAS
"Now, I doubt any of you would prefer a rolled up newspaper as a
weapon against a dictator or a criminal intruder.  Yet in
essence, that is what you have asked our loved ones to do,
through an ill-contrived and totally naive campaign against the
Second Amendment."
(Speech to National Press Club / 9-11-97)
In response to those self-serving dissidents who have criticized
him, Mr. Heston said simply, "I stand by my record."  We, too,
stand on that record along with nearly three million NRA members
committed to preserving our Second Amendment freedoms.
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This and other information on the Second Amendment and the NRA is
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