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NAME: Spike ("He Got Game") Lee AGE: 42 OCCUPATION: Director, Nike pitchman BEST PUNCH: Asked at a press conference about Charlton Heston's involvement with the N.R.A., Lee joked that Heston should be shot "with a .44-cal. bulldog" pistol...
...N.R.A. president Charlton Heston had a cannier sense of public relations, he would knock himself out campaigning to stop the sale of semiautomatic weapons, ban armor-piercing bullets and do all possible to keep firearms away from criminals, children and psychotics. He would legitimize his own case by pre-empting the best ideas of the other side...
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...
...CHARLTON HESTON N.R.A. head loses state ballot on concealed weapons. Next up: Missouri overrun by locusts...
...best way to break your neck? Tipping your head back to stare at the screen on the ceiling. The Mugar Omni Theater is showing Alaska: Spirit of the Wild. Charlton Heston narrates the journey into one of the world's last great frontiers. Museum of Science, Science Park. 723-2500. Call for daily show times...