Reckon Jim Carrey lost a few of his 10 million Twitter followers Monday?

In a biting "Hee-Haw" themed Funny or Die spoof, the outspoken comedian takes aim at America's "heartless" gun enthusiasts -- including Charlton Heston, the late actor and former NRA president.

Carrey performed double duty in the video, as both Heston and the twangy lead singer of the band performing the catchy "Cold Dead Hand." (The title is an allusion to Heston's rifle-toting 2000 NRA address, in which he referenced the famous slogan "I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.")

"Charlton Heston movies are no longer in demand, and his immortal soul may lay forever in the sand. The angels wouldn't take him up to heaven like he planned, because they couldn't pry the gun from his cold dead hand," Carrey sings, with help from famous peace advocates Mahatma Gandhi, John Lennon and Abraham Lincoln -- all peace promoters assassinated by gunmen.

The lyrics also hit male gun owners below the belt, suggesting that they are overcompensating for an anatomical deficiency:

"You're a big, big man with a little bitty gland, so you need something bigger with a hairpin trigger."

The "Bruce Almighty" star didn't mince words when promoting the video Sunday. "'Cold Dead Hand' is abt u heartless motherf%**ers unwilling 2 bend 4 the safety of our kids," he tweeted. "Sorry if you're offended by the word safety!"

In response to music video's widespread and inevitable backlash, Carrey wrote Monday:

"Thx 4 your input 2day. I don't think i've ever felt so despised and so free at the same time. It's been delightfully. ;^}"

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New Line Cinema

Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels will return in "Dumb and Dumber 2."

Remember that "Dumb & Dumber" prequel back in 2003, "Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd"? Yeah, well, now that you remembered it, go ahead and forget about that. It starred Derek Richardson and Eric Christian Olsen instead of Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey and reviews were pretty lousy. (Wrote Peter Travers in Rolling Stone, "(Olsen) looks like Carrey being demonically possessed by Jerry Lewis.")

But you can wipe that one out of your memory banks (try Rekall, I hear they're good at this) now, because a real "Dumb and Dumber" follow-up, a true sequel, is on its way, with Carrey and Daniels returning in the main roles from the 1994 flick.

Peter Farrelly of writing/directing team The Farrelly Brothers told ComingSoon.net that the sequel will start filming in September. He was quick to distance himself from the prequel, saying "We did not do 'Dumb and Dumberer.' That was a studio thing."

He told the site that Daniels and the Farrellys were always on board, but it took a commitment from Jim Carrey to move things forward.

Daniels, of course, is anything but dumb in Aaron Sorkin's next project, "The Newsroom," in which he stars. The trailer for that HBO show made the Internet rounds Monday.

The news follows on the heels of Will Ferrell announcing that he'll make a sequel to his 2004 hit comedy "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy."

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