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Originally Posted by driveway
I kinda think Charlton Heston tarnished Charlton Heston:
He turned a legitimate 'sporting' organization into a right-wing lobby group, expressed no sentiment of apology when holding a major NRA rally in Denver days after the Columbine shooting, and has probably done more than anyone ever to contribute to the number of guns on the streets of the US - somewhere north of 200 million right now.
My sympathies to his family, but the guy's politics are whacked and he deserved what he got from Moore.
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You um do know that the NRA rally in Denver was not a Rally but their annual meeting, and that the NRA is a non profit organization. The NRA is also a New York based organization and the statutes in New York don't allow you to cancel the time or place of the meeting without at least 10 days notice. The shootings happened 11 days before the meeting, and there were already 4 million members nationwide that would have had to have been informed. Logistics and the law prevented the cancellation of the NRA annual meeting. Also the NRA scaled back the rally, maintaining only what was legally required.
The speech that Moore showed in all of his outrage (cold dead hands) with Heston holding a handmade musket was a clever bit of editing by Moore as the speech was not made at that meeting 11 days after Columbine, but one year later in Charlotte North Carolina after Heston was given the gift of that musket. It was a statement of gratitude for receiving the rifle, not a statement of defiance over gun control debates.
Moore did his best to put Heston in the worst possible light.
The speech that Moore showed where Heston showed defiance to the mayer who requested that the NRA not hold their meeting was an edited piece where Moore took 7 lines from 5 different speeches and another pieces from a different speech all together and sewed them together.
There is very little truth in Moore's treatment of Heston, but there sure is a lot of deception and clever editing.