Archie Bunker's editorial on gun control (classic stuff)

[WilliamPitt]

[LWolf]

1. "Case closed."

I was just watching some old clips the other day, and wondering why we don't have anything as groundbreaking as All in the Family today.

Or do we, and I've just missed it, scrolling through the very long list of crime/cop/fbi/cia/ shows?

[lumberjack_jeff]

6. Partly because americans once had the capacity of recognizing the patently ridiculous.

It's difficult to write satire when 30% of the people will just say "hell yeah!"

[Populist_Prole]

14. Poe's Law in action

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

[unblock]

26. in any reasonable country, the republican party would be considered a parody party.

in fact, before reagan, these people were known as the lunatic fringe.

on second thought, goldwater was considered the lunatic fringe and even he had to distance himself from today's republican party!

[brewens]

2. All planes flying at low level so we don't have to worry about de-pressurization

when a gun battle breaks out. What could go wrong? I'm sure air traffic control could handle that!

[gollygee]

3. That's the same advice we read here

"Give everybody guns and the bad guys will be too afraid to do anything." Archie said it first!

[ismnotwasm]

4. Heh!!

K&R

[loyalsister]

5. "All ya gotta do is pass out the pistols at the beginning of the trip"

[tk2kewl]

7. in the 70s that was an absurd suggestion - today the nutters would expect us to take it seriously

Nt

[loyalsister]

9. I don't think

the fact that gun nuts think it is a good idea makes it any less absurd.

[tk2kewl]

15. but the conventional wisdom now includes the absurd on so many topics

[loyalsister]

21. Sadly, you are correct

[Brother Buzz]

8. This might be a good place to segue straight into Pat Paulsen's gun control editorial

[Go Vols]

10. That sounded like

Tommy Smothers reading the lead in to the editorial.

Damn,I am getting old.

[napkinz]

20. All In The Family, The Smothers Brothers ...

If only they made shows like that today!

Damn!

[B Calm]

23. Damn if he didn't have an accident & shot someone at the end, LOL. .

[progressoid]

11. We used to ridicule people like him.

Now, they are elected to office or given jobs as serious tv hosts.

[napkinz]

19. If you showed that clip to a Teabagger

... I bet he or she would agree with Archie and be confused as to why the audience is laughing.

[1-Old-Man]

12. And a bunch of fucking idiots use the same argument today - arm everyone, its safer.

Fucking idiots, no more and no less.

[Skittles]

24. lots of gun humpers on DU

they think their paranoia and fear are normal and want the same for all of us

[Phillyindy]

13. And just think...

...to this day this his child-like reasoning is embraced even by the so-called intellectuals on the right.

[valerief]

16. The sad thing is America thought this was funny in the seventies (I sure did) but today

we've got members of Congress talking like this.

[Jim__]

17. That was a joke when they did it. Today it's policy. - n/t

[spedtr90]

18. Michele Bachmann would like to add....

[B Calm]

22. Ha ha ha, Case Closed!

[napkinz]

25. kick

nt