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On February 19, while channel surfing, I ran across an old episode of Gunsmoke. After Marshal Dillon jails some violent cowboys, a trail boss threatens to organize a boycott of Dodge City if Dillon doesn’t go easy on his rowdy men. He refuses.
The city council strips Dillon of his powers in the city and appoints an unarmed constable (portrayed by Strother Martin) to police the town.
When the cattlemen return, the constable cannot stop a fight with words alone. The cowboys fill him with liquor then stuff him in a barrel and roll him down the street. A murder is committed and when a stray bullet kills a relative of one of the councilmen, the politicians apologize to Dillon and plead with him to restore order, which he does.
Some bad ideas just won’t go away.
James Arness passed away ten years ago.So there's dozens of cities where the police were stripped of their guns right now?
Did Marshall Dillon restore order by "rounding up all the niggers" and choking them to death?
Sounds like an "alternate" Blazing Saddles script written by Stephen Miller.
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Whenever I see Matt Dillon I think of my father.Being 84 years old, I of course used to watch "Gunsmoke."
I do not remember that episode.
Of course, in those days, certain topics could not be explicit.
I was such an innocent teenager that I did not realize that Kitty's profession was as a ...
I miss the 1950s because I was young and because senseless and vicious street crime simply did not occur in the nicer parts of American cities. (I had forgotten that the series ran for twenty years, ending in 1975. Oh, yes, violent crime by then had reached the nicer parts of all American cities by then.)
You're comparing modern America to the Wild West?On February 19, while channel surfing, I ran across an old episode of Gunsmoke. After Marshal Dillon jails some violent cowboys, a trail boss threatens to organize a boycott of Dodge City if Dillon doesn’t go easy on his rowdy men. He refuses.
The city council strips Dillon of his powers in the city and appoints an unarmed constable (portrayed by Strother Martin) to police the town.
When the cattlemen return, the constable cannot stop a fight with words alone. The cowboys fill him with liquor then stuff him in a barrel and roll him down the street. A murder is committed and when a stray bullet kills a relative of one of the councilmen, the politicians apologize to Dillon and plead with him to restore order, which he does.
Some bad ideas just won’t go away.
Enjoy security long enough and eventually people will forget what it feels like to be threatened. Deals will be made and high-minded ideals will be attempted until security is no longer guaranteed and the people will then want it back at all costs. Rinse and repeat.
Yeah no. Dirty Harry is only good for the fictional universe he exists in. If you wanna see a more realistic portrayal of the dirty harry types look at the punisher comics, they end up as broken men.On February 19, while channel surfing, I ran across an old episode of Gunsmoke. After Marshal Dillon jails some violent cowboys, a trail boss threatens to organize a boycott of Dodge City if Dillon doesn’t go easy on his rowdy men. He refuses.
The city council strips Dillon of his powers in the city and appoints an unarmed constable (portrayed by Strother Martin) to police the town.
When the cattlemen return, the constable cannot stop a fight with words alone. The cowboys fill him with liquor then stuff him in a barrel and roll him down the street. A murder is committed and when a stray bullet kills a relative of one of the councilmen, the politicians apologize to Dillon and plead with him to restore order, which he does.
Some bad ideas just won’t go away.
Yeah no. Dirty Harry is only good for the fictional universe he exists in. If you wanna see a more realistic portrayal of the dirty harry types look at the punisher comics, they end up as broken men.
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