Word: charleton
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Contrary to the views of those like Charleton Heston and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura--that more concealed weapons could have prevented violence in this and other school shootings--the shooting has shown us that handguns have no place in American society. The guns used in the shooting--sawed-off shotguns, a 9-millimeter and a carbine pistol--were not sold directly to the youths, but their easy availability is unacceptable. Heston and Ventura would have us believe that the only way to protect ourselves is to arm ourselves, but reasonable Americans know that more guns mean more violence...
...seems until Woody (now an ant named "Z") gets off the psychoanalyst's couch and walks into "The Colony." Hardly the accustomed venue for paranoid melodrama, the computer generated image of a million humanoid ants carrying around gargantuan dirt clods seems to belong more to a Charleton Heston flick than to a movie whose hero is characterized by unrelenting nervousness...