When Charlton Heston made his statement, it was bound to be an unforgettable moment, for good or bad. As he says in the video below, he had only five words, as he raised a flintlock over his head:

From my cold, dead hands.

A University of Louisville spokeswoman said a person who walked into the student health services building with a weapon was disarmed shortly afterward.

You may have heard of the Transportation Safety Administration's (TSA)Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) program, which trains and certifies pilots to carry firearms on planes. It's a post 9/11 program. In this case, I'm wondering if the pilot in question needs some remedial training.

Thousands gathered Friday outside a bullet-scarred Jewish seminary in Jerusalem to mourn eight students killed by a Palestinian gunman.

The man who gunned down five people at Northern Illinois University in a suicidal rampage had recently "become erratic" after halting his medication and carried a shotgun to campus inside a guitar case, police said Friday.

A man armed with a box cutter barricaded himself inside a day-care center in southern Italy on Wednesday with 11 children and a teacher, but police captured him hours later and all the hostages were released unhurt.