So is the NRA going to organize a rally in Virginia just like in "Bowling for Columbine"?

[Kolesar]

Rush in there and control the message. Charleton Heston raising a vintage rifle over his head, chanting his battle cry through an angry clenched mouth? Of course, poor Charleton is looking pretty palsied these days. Maybe get an assist lifting his gun up. Then again, I don't know if a dementia patient is even allowed to posess a firearm in Virginia.

[rfranklin]

1. He was demented even before the disease took hold...

Peddling guns was his last chance to get some of the limelight.

[murielm99]

2. It might not work this time.

The message is already out of control. I think many, many more people would be repulsed, including this gun owner.

We have that biker group who attends military funerals to keep crazy Phelps and his family at bay. We need a similar group to keep the NRA at bay. Maybe something like Gun Owners for Decency and Respect for the Murdered?

Seriously, I think it is too late for the NRA to step in on this one.

[Tyler Durden]

3. We need to let this go. Please.

We cannot win this one. Columbine proved it. The hue and cry is already subsiding for the dead and the "GOD, GUNS AND GUTS" crowd is circling their wagons.

PLEASE. Let's not tilt at this windmill again. Gore didn't even carry TENNESSEE and this was a good part of the reason.

[tyedyeto]

4. To be factual...

The NRA rally in Denver had been scheduled a long time before what happened at Columbine. But did they go over the top at the rally that weekend? A definite yes!

[Kolesar]

5. Oh, thanks!

[mitchleary]

6. Geez, Bowling for Columbine was not about gun ownership

it was about America's culture of fear and hatred. Canadians own a lot of guns, per the movie, and their murder rate is very low. It is the crackpots in this country that make gun ownership look bad. Remember the news coverage difference in both countries? American TV was littered with murder etc, and Canadian TV was talking about potholes.

The people who use any excuse to talk about banning guns, need to give it a rest. The sad thing, is most of you do not know what in the heck you are talking about, like the Congress woman from NY that wants to ban barrel shrouds, and has no idea what they are. That kind of talk just keeps the fear of guns alive. She is a fear monger, just like members of the current Bush adminstration.
The best is anti-gun Senator Diane Feinstein, who happens to be married to defense contractor. Hypocrisy?

[KharmaTrain]

7. They've Been Pretty Low Key

First of all...my mother suffered from Altzheimers and while I detest Mr. Heston's idiotic and senile stand on guns, I also can imagine his disease is fairly progressed right now and I doubt Mr. Heston knows what day of the week it is yet alone what happened in Virginia. I watched this disease take a dynamic person and make her a prisoner in her own body...I don't wish it on anyone...a horrible way to fade away.

I haven't seen that asshat Wayne LaPierre...at least not yet in this mess. Actually the strongest pro-gun advocates I've encountered are right here in GD.