Jim Carrey mocks the late actor and NRA President Charlton Heston in a pro-gun control video the actor posted Monday on the website Funny or Die.

"Charlton Heston movies are no longer in demand, and his immortal soul may lay forever in the sand," Carrey sings in character as Heston while a country western band backs him up. "The angels wouldn't take him up to heaven like he planned, because they couldn't pry the gun from his cold dead hand."

The Jim Carrey "cold, dead, hand" joke in the Funny or Die clip is a reference to Heston's 2000 speech to then presidential candidate Vice President At Gore at an NRA event.

"As we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those fighting words for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, Mr. Gore: 'From my cold, dead hands!" Heston said.

Star of the classic Hollywood films "The Ten Commandments" and "Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.

Jim Carrey, the star of "Dumb and Dumber" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" says the Charlton Heston parody video is his way of venting his frustration over the national gun control debate.

The Canadian-born actor calls the recent gun violence in the U.S. "frustrating."

"[The Funny or Die video was] my fun little way of expressing that frustration," Carrey said.

The video drew the ire of Fox News's "The Five" co-host Greg Gutfield, who called the "Ace Ventura" actor a "moral coward."

"He thinks this is biting satire?" Gutfeld asked. "Going after rural America and a dead man?"

Carrey took to Twitter Monday to fire back.

"'Cold Dead Hand' is [about] u heartless motherf***ers unwilling 2 bend 4 the safety of our kids," Carrey tweeted. "Sorry if you're offended by the word safety!"

"I'm appalled at [what] I've seen on [this] stream the last few days, all in hatred's defense," Carrey wrote in another tweet. "No wonder it's so dangerous to be a child today."

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