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"Sometimes It Takes A Loaded Gun To Prove A Friendship"
Sefl | 05-07-2016 | Captain Peter Blood

Posted on 05/07/2016 10:12:34 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood

While watching an old episode of "Gunsmoke" this morning I heard this little gem spoken by U.S. Marshall Matt Dillon. I found it so interesting I wrote it down.

I suppose it is open to interpretation but in the context of what Donald Trump has been talking about since day one on rebuilding our military it kind of makes sense.

Kind of like another line from a movie I saw years ago called "Speechless" where these two guys are running for the U.S. Senate in the southwest on the border with Mexico. The dividing live on the border was this huge ditch which the Democrat candidate hated and the Republican candidate liked. The nickname was "The Friendship Ditch" kind of like that wall Trump wants to build.

Anyway the Matt Dillon lines sounds good and would not that be a line for Trump to use, would drive the Liberals Crazy.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Word For The Day
KEYWORDS: dodgecity; donaldtrump; gunsmoke; mattdillon
Okay please make your comments, if any.
1 posted on 05/07/2016 10:12:34 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?


2 posted on 05/07/2016 10:14:20 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
The old 30 minute Gunsmoke episodes are the best - a couple of Matt Dillon quotes that I like:
1. "You've got 15 minutes to get out of Dodge!"
2. "I'm gonna beat you half to death"
3. "I will squash you like a bug"
My Dad liked the show so much he named our dog Matt Dillon.
3 posted on 05/07/2016 10:19:05 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

What was the line? Did I miss it?


4 posted on 05/07/2016 10:27:35 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

I love catchy lines from old movies or TV shows. One of my favorites is Admiral Chegwidden from an old JAG - believe he was talking to the CIA guy Webb...

“I may not be in your chain of command but you are in my line of fire.”

The nonsense we’re forced to put up with today from the government, crowds all the good lines from our minds..


5 posted on 05/07/2016 10:30:50 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: MileHi; Captain Peter Blood

Yeah, I think I missed the line, too.


6 posted on 05/07/2016 10:31:22 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

On your second point, the border with Mexico, Robert Frost famously wrote: “Stone Walls make good neighbors.”

And he was right.


7 posted on 05/07/2016 10:31:43 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: MileHi

“”What was the line? Did I miss it?””

I was going to ask the same thing but decided the title must be the line.......


8 posted on 05/07/2016 10:31:51 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

Might be right I guess. Guess I’d like to know the context.


9 posted on 05/07/2016 10:47:49 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Cicero

I think the actual line was “Good fences make good neighbors”.


10 posted on 05/07/2016 10:48:13 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Quoting Robert Heinlin, “An armed society is a polite society.”.


11 posted on 05/07/2016 11:00:42 AM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Well, I surely like the idea of calling Trump’s wall the “Friendship Wall.”

(Subtitled; “Built by America, paid for by Mexico.”


12 posted on 05/07/2016 11:23:31 AM PDT by G-Bear (I am NOT a "vigilante." I am an "undocumented police officer.")
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To: MileHi

“Sometimes It Takes A Loaded Gun To Prove A Friendship”


13 posted on 05/07/2016 11:39:54 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Thanks, got that after a bit.


14 posted on 05/07/2016 12:27:10 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Bernie took it to a new level!
30 second video that’s NOT TO BE MISSED. I’ll watch it at least once a day between now and November!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=LnPrxbYARJg&app=desktop


15 posted on 05/07/2016 12:34:21 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: DuncanWaring

Quite right. The title is “Mending Wall,” it’s a stone wall he’s talking about, and he calls it a wall about ten times throughout the poem, but the poem does end, for some reason, with “Good fences make good neighbors.”

In any case, he’s quite right.


16 posted on 05/07/2016 12:57:48 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Dick Bachert

That’s Hillaryious....so smooth it seemed real.


17 posted on 05/07/2016 2:07:34 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Dick Bachert

Brilliant! I just sent it out to my email list.


18 posted on 05/07/2016 2:29:29 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Buzzards got to eat, same as worms!


19 posted on 05/07/2016 7:22:43 PM PDT by GingisK
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