Sunday, April 6th, 2008
I imagine Charlton Heston is still gripping his gun. Back in my college days, we held ‘mandment parties each year when The Ten Commandments aired. That movie sits on my list of top movies of all time.
I was never the fan of The Planet of the Apes that all my friends were . . . sci fi et al. But I think there is enough in Heston’s back catalogue to keep one busy: Macbeth, A Man for All Seasons, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Mister Roberts, The Greatest Show on Earth, Ben-Hur, and Soylent Green.
Rest in peace, Mr. Heston.
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Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Tell me why Fred Thompson should not be our next president. Yet another article the would-be executive penned showed up in the National Review:
The statistics are clear. Communities that recognize and grant Second Amendment rights to responsible adults have a significantly lower incidence of violent crime than those that do not. More to the point, incarcerated criminals tell criminologists that they consider local gun laws when they decide what sort of crime they will commit, and where they will do so.
Thompson makes it clear where he stands on the Second Amendment. He does a fine job of making his case too.
When people capable of performing acts of heroism are discouraged or denied the opportunity, our society is all the poorer. And from the selfless examples of the passengers on Flight 93 on 9/11 to Virginia Tech professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor who sacrificed himself to save his students earlier this week, we know what extraordinary acts of heroism ordinary citizens are capable of.
There is no doubt the man from Tennessee is making his case to conservatives. After he wins us, he will turn to getting everyone else. He has enough issues he should be able to get middle America.
Whenever I’ve seen one of those “Gun-free Zone” signs, especially outside of a school filled with our youngest and most vulnerable citizens, I’ve always wondered exactly who these signs are directed at. Obviously, they don’t mean much to the sort of man who murdered 32 people just a few days ago.
A literate man, Thompson is wowing the country. Just who are those signs meant for? I dare say, ol’ Fred is articulate. Should I duck for using that word?
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Saturday, April 29th, 2006
Ipso Facto captures the struggle over the Second Amendment succinctly:
Now, why is it that others cannot see this?
FWIW, Ipso Facto is daily reading. That is why it is on the blogroll.
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