Michael Moore Interviewed Charlton Heston

Michael Moore halfway made his point when he interviewed Charlton Heston in Bowling for Columbine.

Here's a sharper analogy.

Dick Cheney and his associates take the view that we must sacrifice some basic rights in order to stop terrorists. We must abandon the Geneva Convention, condone warrantless wiretaps, and so on.

This suggests that conventional law enforcement methods lack the backbone to stop terrorists.

YET Charlton Heston and the National Rifle Association argue that law enforcement can deal with the proliferation of hand guns and assault rifles. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" implies that law enforcement needs only to find and control the bad people and do nothing to control sale and possession of the weapons.

- CarlD

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