>Microsoft's Slate Magazine snickered, observing that he might have to give up his second Amendment rights under California law prohibiting someone with a mental disorder from owning a gun.
> How gross!
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>Here is one reply to that article.
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>Subject: TO SLATE'S EDITORS
>From: Eric Friedemann
>Date: Aug 12 2002 8:29 AM
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>Are the concepts of cruelty and bad taste completely lost on those who "edit" Slate? The Charlton Heston "explainer" piece is breathtaking.
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>Charlton Heston has made a courageous public statement under horrific circumstances; publicly admitting that he probably has Alzheimer's disease. That a public figure like Heston or Ronald Reagan would have the guts to discuss such an awful illness openly deserves praise, not a snide, back-handed attack in the guise of examining California's draconian firearms laws.
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>Also, Charlton Heston has, for years, been an honest, courteous advocate for the rights guaranteed to gun owners under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. If Norman Lear or Alec Baldwin were diagnosed with a brain-wasting disease, would Slate be running ironic commentary about them? Has Slate poked fun at former editor Michael Kinsley's sad affliction Parkinson's disease? Of course not; that would be inhuman.
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>One would hope that someone in authority at Slate would have enough decency to pull the Heston piece. I guess not.
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> The magazines web site is http://slate.msn.com in case anyone would like to respond to the article.
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>Bill

It doesn't demean Heston as much as it reveals the arrogance of the people who write for Slate. They are the crowd who would love to see your and my 2nd Amendment rights removed, but folks like Rosie hire armed body guards and Diane Fienstein (sp?) even got a handgun permit so she could carry a .32 handgun in her purse as she walked to the hospital to see her ailing husband. They think it's more than fair that they should be able to arm themselves but not you or I. The hyprocrocy is stunning. The 'shall not be abridged' has no meaning any more, and if it has no meaning for the 2nd Amendment then it will have no meaning for the 1st Amendment.
JLK