Cats, Guns, and National Security

In 1952 people were still trying to figure out how to use the brand new medium. This episode stands out for playing up the potential. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FE5Ft6GS-Fs&pp=ygUcdGFsZXMgb2YgdG9tb3Jyb3cgdGhlIHdpbmRvdw%3D%3D According to a commentary HERE , there was supposedly a disclaimer attached to it, but no known surviving recordings of the episode show it. And apparently it was interrupted midstream in a few US cities by stations thinking it was real.

Charlie Kirk addressed to question from someone at least presenting himself as a rather purist RKBA advocate. Whether that purist was sincere or a mole/troll, I do not know. MY COMMENT: “Political realities, folks, preclude this fellow’s approach regardless. Holding onto some private firepower requires a moderate approach. Purism will only turn a vast swath of the American  people against gun rights. See my channel page for a link my blog’s “Daily Fudd” series. Edition 10–"An Originalist fudd-ish argument regarding full-auto and 2A” offers a prospective  that can give judges a line to be true to the Founders and secure essential firepower, including our AR15s and such, while excluding items like cruise missiles.” Kirk is not college-educated. His ability in things like historical analysis of the Constitution is limited. He will often take a knee-jerk surface approach to things, though as he has aged and matured he has done better. So I do not know if he would except the ideas...

They want handed what they cannot rightly gain.

Intro:  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-sp68GjYL0&pp=ygUTZmlyZWZseSBpbnRybyB0aGVtZQ%3D%3D Opening sequence from Shepherd Book. Tells the basic story setting.  https://m.youtube.com/shorts/2gIvX4ym-ig Two clips summarizing opening of the “second pilot” Ep 2–“The Train Job.” Gives a flavor of the show regarding Western vs SciFi. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/amkJVcFNt7E https://m.youtube.com/shorts/OE1-wHPY8Ac

Someone is likely to steal these, but since I have no means of making them happen, I really can’t complain too much. 1.  "My Two Wives" : By a weird fluke, a man has two different marriages registered at exactly the same time, and because the laws of his state forbid marrying when one is already married, but not simply having two wives at the same time, he and his wives slip through the crack. After all, says the lead character, "You tell me which one I married first!" It would be a CBS-type sit-com vaguely like "The King of Queens" (cf Episode 6x24: “Awful Bigamy”) focusing on the obvious humor, yet leaving virtually unaddressed any community response to the situation, which is not kept secret. 2.  "The Littlest Country" : Vaguely a mix of "Grand Duchy of  Fenwick " series and "The Almost Royal Family" 1980s ABC  Afterschool  Special with a young Sarah Jessica Parker. Due to a treaty fluke centuries ago, a few people find the...

(Edited: 11 April 2025) They should make a movie based on this. Kind of like what they did with “ The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.” Either a direct take or a loose inspiration with modified lyrics. But either way, with the cat telling the story or filmed from the cat’s perspective would be additionally fun. A POINT ON HOW A PARTICULAR LINE IN A DIRECT TAKE MIGHT WORK: “ The Dealer had a knife and the dog had a gun a nd the cat had a shot of Rye.” Unless one takes the “dog” and “cat” as actually being humans colloquially referred to as such, this seems written just to bring a silly image to the song. Two options exist to make this serious: 1. Set the scene in the back of the bar, where Della and the animals are off to the side while Randy and the dealer have their altercation. The cat is given a liquid snack to keep him out of trouble, while the dog is wearing a pack holding a concealed firearm (be it belonging to the dealer or Della), the idea being that the canine was less l...