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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: 230RN on June 10, 2019, 10:59:25 PM
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... On May 20, 2000, ... the actor and president at the time of the NRA, Charlton Heston, ended a speech by concluding:
For the next six months, [Democratic presidential candidate] Al Gore is going to smear you as the enemy. He will slander you as gun-toting, knuckle-dragging, bloodthirsty maniacs who stand in the way of a safer America. Will you remain silent? I will not remain silent. If we are going to stop this, then it is vital to every law-abiding gun owner in America to register to vote and show up at the polls on Election Day.
Heston then paused to pick up a replica of a flintlock long rifle and continued:
...I want to say those fighting words for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, Mr. Gore: 'From my cold, dead hands!'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_my_cold,_dead_hands
You may expect this to disappear from Google in the near future. I therefore commend this to your storage media lest it be forgotten after it is purged from the records.
Terry, 230RN
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ju4Gla2odw
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That was definitely an iconic line. He is a great speaker. Hopefully it doesn't come to that choice.
I heard this recently and thought I would add it. I have heard people give opinions that was around the time LaPierre was really taking over the NRA, but I think that started earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Knox
In 1997, a narrowly-divided NRA Board voted Knox out of the succession line for President of the NRA replacing him with Charlton Heston, who was subsequently elected president of the organization.
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Yeah, great speaker that he was, Heston was a tool in a plot against Neal Knox.... and got the parasite Wayne LaPierre permanetly embedded in the NRA.
I recommend "The Gun Rights War" by Knox.