If you can get to a gun you can get to a phone.
- Thread starter castile
- Start date
- Status
Reminds me of something from years ago. Some guys were arguing at work when cell-phones were first becoming popular whether it would be better to have a cellphone or a gun. The next day there was a news story about a woman who had been killed in an alligator attack. One of the guys who had been arguing for a gun over a cellphone commented sarcastically: "Boy, I'll bet she sure wished she had a cellphone!"
The phrase "When seconds count, the police are just minutes away" comes to mind.
Last edited:
Carl N. Brown
Member
I have read that quote attributed to Sgt Joe Friday of Dragnet.
bbqncigars
Member
- Joined
- Mar 30, 2023
- Messages
- 64
The old corded handsets would have made a sturdy but short bludgeon, then strangle with the cord. I'll stick with my carry piece.
mljdeckard
Member
Thinking of the scene in "Get Shorty" when Dennis Farina bludgeons Gene Hackman with his desk phone. "Don't you puke on my shoes, Harry!"
Just trying to fathom the logic of thinking that someone who can choose between a gun and a phone while they are getting shot at should grab the phone FIRST.
Just trying to fathom the logic of thinking that someone who can choose between a gun and a phone while they are getting shot at should grab the phone FIRST.
jmorris
Member
- Joined
- Sep 30, 2005
- Messages
- 24,224
Funny, I googled the quote and it’s the first time ever, it only came back with a single result.
I vote, it’s an original, You, at least asleeep…
Edit: Weird, it has the date wrong.
And it evolves, it’s results, with the exact same search.
I vote, it’s an original, You, at least asleeep…
Edit: Weird, it has the date wrong.
And it evolves, it’s results, with the exact same search.
Jim Watson
Member
Of course the ideal is a phone on an open line to the PD and a gun in hand.
Didn't you bring this up 3 years ago?
Help finding a TV show gun quote
I swear I remember seeing an old Jack Webb episode of Dragnet where Jack tells a woman who has a gun for protection if you can get to a gun you can get to a phone. Anyone know what episode this was from?
www.thehighroad.org
Matthew Temkin
Member
Actually his partner Col Potter.
Carl N. Brown
Member
Thanks for the tip for further research.
Harry Morgan (who played Col Potter on M*A*S*H) was Captain Bill Gannon on the 1967-1970 Dragnet reboot.
In the airdate 19 Sep 1968 episode "Public Affairs" aka the debate episode (IMDb # DR-07) Joe Friday and Bill Gannon represent LAPD against a panel of cop critics.
Last edited:
FL-NC
Member
True statement, most likely. Both items are very useful, but not even close to being fully interchangeable.
Carl N. Brown
Member
I found the episode on YouTube. Dragnet "Public Affairs" 19 Sep 1968. In the audience participation section of the Speak Your Mind panel program at about the twelve minute mark, a Harry Wilson questions gun control and asserts his right to have a pistol for home protection. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) questions his ability to secure his gun from his children. Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) chimes in:
" If you have the time to get to your gun, you have time to get to a phone and call us."
Later, Wilson argues that registration lists could be seized by an invading army to thwart guerilla resistance by armed citizens. The TV LAPD answer is that civilian resistance would futile in this nuclear age. IMDb does have full quote of that exchange.
" If you have the time to get to your gun, you have time to get to a phone and call us."
Later, Wilson argues that registration lists could be seized by an invading army to thwart guerilla resistance by armed citizens. The TV LAPD answer is that civilian resistance would futile in this nuclear age. IMDb does have full quote of that exchange.
Last edited:
Carl N. Brown
Member
Looking the post, nobody answered then.
Carl N. Brown
Member
"If you can get to a gun you can get to a phone" may have been a gun control talking point repeated by more than one screenwriter.
Like the variations on the talking point 'every bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun until he went bad' I keep running into in comments sections.
Like the variations on the talking point 'every bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun until he went bad' I keep running into in comments sections.
old lady new shooter
Member
- Joined
- Apr 26, 2015
- Messages
- 30,665
55 years later and they still spout the same nonsense!
In a genuinely up-against-it-genuinely-bad situation I wonder about the fine motor skills needed to get Face ID to work to unlock the phone or ability to remember depressing the lock button in rapid succession makes a 9-1-1 call? My sense is that any victims need a brief lull, even 5-10 seconds, to effectively bring the phone into action.
RetiredUSNChief
Member
I don't remember that source.
I do remember a Chuck Norris movie where his old sensei watched Chuck beat the tar out of dozens of bad guys and then, when the fighting all but over, the sensei sees one guy starting to get back up, picks up a phone off a desk and wacks the guy straight back into lala land.
Then he turns to Chuck and says "Sloppy! Very sloppy!"
I can't remember what movie that was, though.
I do remember a Chuck Norris movie where his old sensei watched Chuck beat the tar out of dozens of bad guys and then, when the fighting all but over, the sensei sees one guy starting to get back up, picks up a phone off a desk and wacks the guy straight back into lala land.
Then he turns to Chuck and says "Sloppy! Very sloppy!"
I can't remember what movie that was, though.
Resist Evil
Member
A TV show is never a good place from which to take advice about how to conduct one's life, save for Billy Graham (back in the day).
Old Dog
Member
I never noticed this stuff back in the '60s or '70s, but I guess it should come as no surprise that, even back then, the Hollywood screenwriters pushed the liberal, anti-gun agenda.
It's particularly prevalent these days on shows such as "SWAT," "Chicago PD," "Emergency 911," even "Blue Bloods," in spite of Selleck's influence... bad things always happen when a private citizen owns a gun, strangely, and someone is always talked out of buying/carrying a gun. Why I enjoyed the cheesy CW show, "Supernatural" -- those Winchester brothers were the poster boys for the RKBA and the writers made no judgements.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
