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In reply to the discussion: Someone should turn these idiotic fuckers in [View all]triplepoint
(431 posts)34. A GunNut Sphincter Says What?
Last edited Sun Jan 13, 2013, 05:27 PM - Edit history (1)
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Saw the movie, "Fail-Safe" again the other night.
(https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/failsafe). Groeteschele's (portrayed by the late great Walter Matthau) famous dialogue stopped me cold:
"How long would the Nazis have kept it up General, if every Jew they came after had met them with a gun in his hand?"
--Walter Matthau, as Groeteschele in "Fail Safe" (1964)
It is a stunner to actually watch and hear Matthau's character utter these words. This so reeks of gun nut illogic to me. They've yet to evolve past this base mentality, as we head into another phony assault weapons ban fight with them.
The remake (2000) of Fail-Safe may capture this as well. I'll post the original or a clip of Matthau's character uttering the above dialog when I find it.
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It is scary. They'll be brought up steeped in guns. spreading that crud to others.
Hoyt
Jan 2013
#47
My dad had a couple of rifles for hunting. He always taught me from the time I was tiny that
kestrel91316
Jan 2013
#53
Your dad knew what he was talking about! So many people have been shot with "unloaded" guns.
SunSeeker
Jan 2013
#33
The baby with the six shooter is holding a toy gun. It's a old school cap gun.
Ashgrey77
Jan 2013
#40