NRA News: Charlton Heston's A Torch With No Flame
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- Опубліковано 14 лис 2009
- Charlton Heston discusses passing on the legacy of the Second Amendment. In this spellbinding performance, the NRA past president challenges Americans to keep freedom's flame alight from generation to generation. Delivered with unedited authenticity reflecting a deep love for his nation, Mr. Heston's eloquent message radiates truth as it lights the American way.
My 10 year old is a history buff and he can recite the preamble to the constitution of the United States from memory. I asked him what the 2nd amendment means to him and in his own words "it protects all other rights and it ensures things like what happened in Germany in the early 20th century doesn't happen in America." This kid makes me one proud dad.
This is the America I want.
God bless the legacy of Charlton Heston , watch over and protect every man who values freedom and is willing to do what is necessary to insure it.
I am helping to pass the torch Charlton, R.I.P an amazing human being!!
One of the greatest Americans and actors of my time...
they need to show this in schools
I truly wish Mr. Heston was still alive today, and running the NRA.
Big Chuck wouldn't have touched the NRA with a 10-foot barge pole if he had still been in his right mind. Alzheimer's makes you do really weird things...RIP
I will mis him very much. No one can speak with the strength that man did.
Absolutely Fantastic. The Torch must be passed!
My deep conviction in that matter and Mr. Heston were instrumental in me, a foreigner, signing up for a Life Membership with the NRA. It was among the best decision in my life. I would love to see many, many more American citizens doing the same thing. Remember: It's not about guns, it's about freedom. He once said: We are right and we'be been right all along! Rest in peace, Mr. Heston. I miss you. We urgently need a kind gentleman with the same charisma to uphold the flame as Mr. Heston did.
We must tell it, teach it, live it, breathe it! We are free to own a firearm and that Right shall not be infringed! Wow, this is excellent, gave me goose bumps.
Over 2,000 friends on facebook. I will share this video until it is in wide circulation, Thank you Mr. Heston for taking the time to teach the lost about something that is fading right before their eyes without notice. It is the spirit of the real United States which resides inside of you. The spirit of patriotism at it's finest. Thank you and God bless sir!
Grear Video, great to understand the USA and the american people and the spirit that made the USA exceptional.
Man nobody like Chuck!! A great man
This is what the public need to hear and say to win the battles you are fighting , get this out there, My deepest respect Chris
If this speech doesn't make your blood flow. I don't know what will.
Couldn't have said any of that better myself. I don't think we'll ever have a man like Mr. Heston ever again, at least not anytime soon. I agree with what he said, we have the right to own firearms and firearm ownership is a key characteristic of free citizens. No man can (or should be able to) infringe or take away rights that no man can grant.
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God Speed Mr. Heston...
Surely do miss that man.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." -Ronald Reagan
And Facebook wont let me share this...
"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary." -Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Truer words are seldom spoken..
I am a proud gun owner and am a NRA MEMBER
"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms,
but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life
and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.
The cause of liberty, the cause of American, cannot succeed with any lesser effort."
- President John F. Kennedy, January 29, 1961
the answer to 1984 is 1776!
You're asking the wrong age group. They haven't learned it in school yet, and if that school doesn't teach the constitution it needs to.
You missed the point. And did you not hear the children's response? They are taught other values.
"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ... The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People."
- Tench Coxe, 1788.
Our Constitution and our responsibility.
Amen
The building, inspirational music is absolutely hilarious
Sooo, Mr. Heston agrees that it takes a village
Manimal789 yeah, a free village. Not a collectivist village run by busybodies.
@TheMossberglover It would be nice to show this in school, unfortunately the liberal gun haters, along side the gun hating "soccer moms", would rise up and unleash hell that freedom is being taught in schools. The best way to inform is through the colleges, from Harvard to the local community college. Inform, educate, and keep vigilant against those who would destroy the rights that our forefathers fought, bled, and died for. May Charleton heston rest in peace and may God always watch over him.
What happened to NRA NOW? Used to be very powerful!
yes. you are right and good.
The purpose of the right to bear arms it to protect all the other rights. I am a firm believer that the main enemy of an oppressive and totalitarian government in an armed citizenry. There are only 2 ways to get a person to do what you want, persuasion and force. An armed population removes the government's option of force. Firearms help keep society in balance.
Ok the first five min shows we need better schools.
What happened to this NRA?
I remember and thank you in life and now death. I remember all that spoke negative about our cause and country. I remember that slug Michael Moore, and how he treated you even at your home. Yes, I remember and hope many others do too.
the 2nd amendment doesn't mean you HAVE to own a gun, it protects your right to CHOOSE to own one, not owning one does not make you unpatriotic, simply using your right to choose not to.
wow
wow it slike hes speaking to us today jesus
people kill people, not guns. it's the person, not the firearm. the gun serves both hero and villian.
Real Talk
• There ya go, wearin' your knowledge on your sleeve...
or lack thereof.
Fear not young man, for none of us are allowed to continue in a mistake...
not even you.
Choosing not to may make you a target in the near future.
gwin1962, you're the one without a clue about what a militia is.
"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials."
- George Mason
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
-- Alexander Hamilton
"No Free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-- Thomas Jefferson
@TheMossberglover I agree 100%
im soo sorry charlton, you and all the other true American patriots deserve soo much more from us, but all we can do is sit on our ass and absorb one sided mainstream media and interpret it as fact
Moses
not having guns when you need them is bad
How has the nostalgia of illusory better days got anything to do with guns? How would the grocerystore clerk who helped your mum or your scout master going to be better of with a Colt.45? :D
The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard. 10 USC § 311 You can argue with quotes, but you can't argue with US Code.
the kids looked chessy but the video was great
Hiding behind a gun does not make you equal? It traps you in fear. In Canada we have the right to meet equal force with equal force. My son got his first deer when he was 13, my children understand and respect guns. If you really want to go back to 1776 or in common wealth law (that's us) look at the bill of rights of 1689, that's Canada's 2nd amendment, however just like letting women vote and abolishing slavery the law has been updated.
How many know the 3rd Amendment?
Better question how many know the Preamble.
no soldier shall be quartered in a persons house without the consent of the owner by peace or by war. :)
2th amendment:
The right to keep and bear arms, often referred as the right to bear arms or the right to have arms, is the assertion that people have a personal right to weapons for individual use, or a collective right to bear arms in a militia, or both.
Thanks God not everyone bear arms on the streets!
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Buying guns for the sake of buying guns is not "the American Way."
Heston wasn't always for guns. Watching him turn into a Republican gun nut is the real tragedy.
Ignorance of the constitution and anxiety regarding equipping all citizens with weaponry are mutually exclusive opinions for children...fuck sake.
you can take god out of school, but at lest teach them there rights..
If you had one you'd most likely do something stupid with it. Your comments show total lack of common sense.
Many of the children in this sound painfully scripted. NRA could have done better.
That said, I love some of the things Charlton Heston says and how is stresses children should be taught how to properly handle, and respect, firearms.
augustcookies No they fucking shouldn't. We don't teach kids to drive, we shouldn't teach them to fire guns.
urtv1 I've been responsibly using firearms since I was eight years old. Your argument is invalid.
HungLikeSasquatch Your anecdotal evidence has completely destroyed my argument. Well done! You truly are a master debater
Here let me put it this way; Just because you were an irresponsible fuckwad as a child doesn't mean others were. Just because your parents did a shit job of raising you and didn't teach you to act responsibly and proper doesn't mean others have been raised the same way.
"firearms is a symbol for freedom" That's the most stupid thing I've ever heart. And this funny overhelming music in the background makes everything he says ridiculous.
+Franzi Stieg Wise wise words. You are surely a very nasty and very unintelligent person Fruiti.
I'm all for guns but this is a bit silly