Can we all agree that America would be a better, safer place without guns? Yeah, I know, from my lips to the ears of Charlton Heston, whose late-in-life command performance was staged at the National Rifle Association’s theater of the absurd, where he delivered such lines as, “I doubt any of you would prefer a rolled-up newspaper as a weapon ... (Full article: 1086 words)

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