Will Propaganda Make Gun Rights Secure? Charlton Heston Wouldn't Think So! Is it guns that make or keep us free? Some claim that a gun rights "propaganda" campaign will help make a citizen's right to own a gun secure again, but the nation's most outspoken advocate for gun rights, Charlton Heston, would probably not agree. Mr. Heston does not support gun rights because he thinks guns are "the teeth in the jaws of liberty." They are not, for the same reason we 2nd amendment advocates know gun control is phony baloney. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Guns are just tools people use in the service of ideas. Before a gun can help a man secure his liberty, he must know the ideas that create freedom and prosperity and follow those ideas in his own life. Then, he must care enough about these ideas that he risks his money, his reputation, and his career in peacetime to stand up for them. If a man will not risk all in peacetime for the ideas that create freedom, picking up a gun will do him no good. Let's face it, while we've had our guns, the citizens who hold the power of government have exercised far more absolute and arbitrary authority over us than the British Parliament ever did. If you've studied the Constitution, you know we are far past the point where America's Founders went to war for liberty. While we've had our guns: The idea that each man is responsible for his own welfare and must work for his bread has been replaced by robbery to support those who don't work. The idea that we should honor our parents and give from our abundance as we purpose in our own hearts has been replaced by more robbery for coerced charity like medicare and social security. The idea that sex is meant for marriage has fallen to our promiscuous passions for every form of perversion. The idea that man holds dominion over the earth and the animals has been replaced by earth worship and animal rights. And the list goes on, as you know. Mr. Heston's long career shows he does not support gun rights because he thinks guns are what keep us free or that guns can halt the flight of our freedom. Mr. Heston's life's work shows that he supports a citizen's right of self defense because he knows where that right comes. The only way a citizen's right to own a gun for self defense makes sense is if we all stand equal before the One who gave us the lives we want to defend. Because we are manifestly unequal. If there is no God who gave us both liberty and life, then there is also no reason why the strongest or smartest - or most ruthless - among us should not use the others as he chooses. Would anyone now claim that it is time to pick up guns to halt big government, the homosexuals, the feminists, the communists, etc., etc.? I doubt it. And the reason is we know in our hearts that Mr. Heston is right. We know the real reason we are losing our guns is because most Americans no longer know the God who gave us the rights we are trying to protect. If we want to make our gun rights - and every other right - secure, the best thing we can do is not put ads on TV or the radio. The only way to keep rights that come from God in a democracy where the majority rules is to get the majority into a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. And we can only do that if we, ourselves, know God through Jesus. Take a tip from Charlton Heston. John Locke Says we're Right about Gun Rights Coming from God! John Locke, the thinker whose ideas led to Blackstone's Commentaries on English law and liberty and Jefferson's Declaration of Independence had this to say about why it is we have a right to defend our lives - with the deadly force of a gun if need be. For Men, being all the Workmanship of one Omnipotent, and infinitely wise Maker; All the Servants of one Sovereign Master, sent into the World by his order and about his business, they are his Property, whose Workmanship they are, made to last during his, not one anothers Pleasure. And being furnished with like Faculties, sharing all in one Community of Nature, there cannot be supposed to be any such Subordination among us, that may Authorize us to destroy one another, as if we were made for one anothers uses, as the inferior ranks of Creatures are for ours. Every one as he is bound to preserve himself, and not to quit his Station willfully; so by the like reason when his own Preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of Mankind, and may not unless it be to do Justice on an Offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the Preservation of Life, the Liberty, Health, Limb or Goods of another. Buy Locke's Treatise's on Government!

Charlton Heston at the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls - the earlist copy of the scriptures - were found. Mr. Heston has done a whole series of videos on the Bible, including one on the Passion of Christ, perfect for Easter Week. To see the other titles or order this video securely online from amazon.com, click the pictures or click here. In his recent TV ads for the NRA, did Mr. Heston stand up for gun rights or against Mr. Clinton's breach of the 9th Commandment against lying? Isn't it the 6th Commandment's prohibition of murder the source from which our rights to self defense - and guns - come? Do you see how our rights come from and are protected by God's moral rules?