In that connection, let us turn back the clock a bit. In the year 1369, Edward III, one of England's truly great monarchs, issued the following order:
"Cause public proclamation to be made, that everyone strong in body at leisure time on holidays use in his recreation the bow and arrow and learn and exercise the art of shooting - forbidding all and singular on our behalf that they do not after any manner apply themselves to the throwing of stones, wood, iron, handball, football, bandyball, cambuck, or cock fighting; nor to other such like vain plays which have no profit in them, under pain of imprisonment."

Edward Rex, Westminster, 12th day of June 1369

Edward was not frightened of his people, or of law abiding citizens being armed with the deadliest instrument of battle in his arsenal. The Longbow being the equivalent of a personal firearm in 1369.

The NRA promote safety training and the enforcement of laws. Charleton Heston has been the target of biased liberal hatred, and personal slight for years. The nature of this thread disgusts me, I lost my father to this disease. (he refused treatment for cancer while still capable of understanding his predicament) I have admired Mr Heston as an accomplished actor, and a man of great oratory skill. You should be ashamed of this thread, he cannot defend himself; and you have no reason to continue such infantile rhetoric.