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Charlton Heston

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Now, I doubt any of you would prefer a rolled up newspaper as a weapon against a dictator or a criminal intruder. Yet in essence, that is what you have asked our loved ones to do, through an ill-contrived and totally naive campaign against the Second Amendment.
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Speech to the National Press Club (14 September 1997)

 
Charlton Heston

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