by Roger Simon

About the author: Roger Simon, a nationally syndicated columnist, is author of Show Time: The American Political Circus and the Race for the White House.

If Charlton Heston wants to talk about what it takes to split the Red Sea, I am prepared to listen.

He did a fine job as Moses in “The Ten Commandments,” and everybody (except the Egyptians) came through the waters just fine.

But Heston was in Washington, D.C. to talk about guns and the Constitution, and on these two subjects, he is—forgive the pun—all wet.

Heston is a vice president of the National Rifle Association, and the NRA is running huge ads in newspapers throughout the country that begin: “I believe the Second Amendment is America’s first freedom...