This weekend the world said goodbye to longtime actor, one-time civil rights activist, and lifelong gun nut, Charleton Heston. Now that we’ve gotten the obvious jokes about gun-control advocates racing to his grave out of our system, and then taking a cue from FOL* Tim Wise, we realize a larger question remains: Would the NRA have championed, say, Sydney Poitier, as one of their own if he said that the only way the government could take his gun would be to pry it from his “cold, dead hands?” Would they have made him their president and chief spokesperson? And so the conversation on race continues. Here’s a picture of Mr. Heston when he still believed the pen mightier than the sword. Enjoy!
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