Archie Bunker Gun Control

[@mattgraves490]

I'm 61 and used to watch All in the family with my parents. Even at 11 years old, I laughed my ass off. Long live Archie.

[@todddavis4274]

Me to! Way way ahead of it's time.

[@MikeWeiner]

Me too! And I STILL quote this show...and I'm 61 this October.

[@Resenbrink]

Me too - I'm 60, turning 61 in September.

[@todddavis4274]

@@Resenbrink Yeah buddy! I turn 57 in Oct. Nice to still be among the living, especially those that can take a joke and be happy for a minute.✌

[@chrisa1125]

@@todddavis4274 I'm 49 and wish we could go back to the days of looking forward to watching a particular show on a particular night at a certain time... instead of having everything on demand all the time. I just think we weren't in such a hurry back then and had more to look forward to, in general.... IDK maybe it's just me.

[@coryhoggatt7691]

Imagine how shocked young people would be to learn that Archie represents the typical “blue dog Democrat” of that time and meathead represents the “progressive” views that would have taken over the party.

[@direbearcoat7551]

And Meathead still spouts the same nonsense til this day! After Nov 5th, I'll bet Archie's laughing at Meathead from Heaven! LOL

[@ToddMatthewSmith]

Dam, you're sharp!!!

[@direbearcoat7551]

Actually, @coryhoggatt7691 is right. Today, people would think that Archie was a MAGA Republican (I exaggerate, but not by much). Back when that show was airing, Archie was, in fact, a Democrat. Meathead was actually an actual Socialist. Today's Democrats are actually Socialists, and today's Socialists have gone to the extreme crazy Woke Left. MAGA Republicans, today, would align with Archie in many of his views (not all of his views).

[@larrybaker5316]

Archie was just coming on when i got home from Nam 1971.......still cracks me up today !

[@timungrysr3326]

Thank you for your Service!

[@lesgobrandon8038]

Welcome Home Soldier!

[@deniseknicely783]

Thank you for your service

[@kimconley8291]

THANK YOU FOR MY ‘FREEDOM🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@BlueOsito]

Thanks for your service Sir.

[@mulligansnodgrass5322]

Goes to show ya they still using the same tactics and propaganda against the people

[@hoskins666]

Like how you don't have the right to bear arms without a militia when the sentence is clearly separated and two parts and you need an armed population to make up armed militias. mead-heads still meating to this day on this

[@francisphillips53]

“How many people wanna get VD?” 😅😅😅😅😅

[@davewanamaker3690]

Great line by Lionel: "It depends on who's holdin' them."

[@kat35lulu88]

Best comment ever......

[@danielkoher1944]

You know That’s Right!

[@erniesmithjr.5252]

If Biden gets his way only the criminals will be holding them.

[@KellyClement]

The Second Lionel had a gun and did robberies for fun.

[@zovalentine7305]

✊

[@sylvesterquast9906]

It's amazing how many issues on this show are still relevant today

[@jamie42172]

not really, hollywood has been amplifying the same greek tragedies and comedies over and over, same shit, different diaper

[@Wis_Dom]

@@jamie42172 Yeah, sure.."Hollywood"

[@playdiscgolf1546]

That’s because that’s how American politics works, they will beat the same drums for future elections too! Lol

[@exclamationpointman3852]

It was relevant since the country began. That's why they fought and died to make this the second most important issue.

[@jasonrenzoni408]

​@@exclamationpointman3852That's why this country sucks.

[@bryanwalthall5483]

The older I get, the more I relate to Archie Bunker and George Jefferson.

[@jamesolson8126]

I hope you realize Archie was the butt of the joke as an idiot.

[@DanielKatzel]

yup - there's no substitute for common sense & no cure for stupid.....

[@josephasner171]

Bryanwaithal5483: me too.

[@lavalampluva55401]

And to think over 50 years later this is still an issue.

[@exclamationpointman3852]

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@stevewilliams6092]

It's only an issue in the United States. It is a complete non issue in the rest of the developed world. But that's okay you guys are right and the rest of the world is wrong.

[@NYyankeeboi]

Whenever the liberals don't get their way, they make it an issue.

[@Derna1804]

176 years later, people are still advocating for communist revolution.

[@felixmadison5736]

And it probably will be an issue 150 years from now. (2024)

[@mistergrool3941]

This scene is 10x more funny when you realize that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Archie's interpretation of the 2nd Amendment

[@zeronomon]

😂

[@sheilacape4794]

But that's exactly what it says, you have a right to carry and cannot be infringed! People need to start reading the dictionary just like *democracy, it simply means "process" and the process needs infringing... lol

[@AllFascistsCanSuckIt]

Only Nazis would want everyone to have to be armed in a country with basically no gun laws. Something tells me that you know more German than most English-speaking people. 😘

[@johnny316b]

it's even funnier that Rob Reiner is the same Meathead today as the one he portays in this, 50 years ago

[@goodwoodBD]

That’s because Archie is right

[@iamtheiceman]

Right or wrong, left or right - you cannot deny that the writing on this show was phenomenal, skillfully touching on controversial subjects that affect everyone. I remember watching this show when I was growing up - laughing at even that young age, at the antics of everyone. Watching it now, and comparing it to the writing in what passes for tv/movies these days - you can truly appreciate the skill and genius of the writers at that time.

[@workisnotlife]

Norman Lear was a pioneer.

[@TodaysDante]

It was originally supposed to be just a foil for Hollywood left wing propaganda, making the conservative into a clown. But Carol O'Conner made the character so likable that the audience dug through the foolish dialog to his true meaning. Basically, it backfired on Hollywood... much like the Alex P Keating character on Family Ties.

[@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602]

@@TodaysDante Clever theory, but full of canal water. Nobody ever needed to train conservatives to be clowns. They've always done a fine job on their own (look at our ex-president). What the writers of AITF did was pan it so the whole world could see what great entertainers clown conservatives are. Archie was not loved, he was despised for his narrow-minded, bigoted, hateful attitudes toward society. His ideology was so aberrant, it was laughable, much the same way Donald Trump's simple mind today is so laughable because it's never in sync with his limited vocabulary.

[@TodaysDante]

@@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 - Not a theory. Do you think for a minute that Hollywood was any different back then than it is today? People ended up siding with the conservative and Hollywood hated it. Why do you think youtube stopped any dislikes? Because the left wing crap kept getting 90% dislikes. Go ahead, call THAT a theory, too.

[@enricomandragona163]

Agreed!! Same thing if you think about the old Slapstick comedies from the early black and white!! Three Stooges comes to mind!! 😂 Lol

[@gregb6469]

No gun ever committed a crime. No gun ever loaded itself, aimed itself, and pulled its own trigger. The problem with gun crime is the criminal, not the gun.

[@ozzieluvaya2202]

I say that all the time

[@r.d.sandman6474]

Keep telling yourself that crap. It’s a very tired argument that everyone is sick of hearing.

[@gregb6469]

@@r.d.sandman6474 -- Prove I'm wrong! Tell us how an inanimate object can, by itself, be a threat to anyone. It is your 'common sense gun control' (aka, gun confiscation and bans) argument that is very tired, and everyone is sick of hearing.

[@SwordInc.]

@@r.d.sandman6474 that's because the truth is unappealing to idoits. Guns don't kill people. People kill people. Alwys have, always will.

[@grayfox1422]

​@@r.d.sandman6474That is because in today's world, people do not want to be told the truth. They want the sophists and sooth-sayers to please them with what what they say.

[@inalavalamp]

“… that depends on who’s holding them.” That’s probably the best line in this whole bit.

[@peggybeckwith3479]

I’ll second that !

[@GKHTS]

It would have been great if Lionel said if my people were allowed to have a gun then maybe they wouldn't have been enslaved cause they could have fought their enslavers.

[@Valorius]

@@GKHTS too bad the democrats invented gun control in the US to deny the use of arms to blacks.

[@temperedwell6295]

This episide is loaded with great lines, but the best undoubtedly is, "Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?" Shoots a lethal hole into the whole gun control argument.

[@spaceclown7650]

@@temperedwell6295 "But ... how many people want VD?" was the real capper 🤣

[@ScoutSniper3124]

Supreme Court ruling 2022, direct quote: "The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not “a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.” The exercise of other constitutional rights does not require individuals to demonstrate to government officers some special need. "The Second Amendment right to carry arms in public for self-defense is no different. New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms in public." Archie was 100% RIGHT... and Meatball's NEVER been right in his life.

[@ByronTexas]

Amen

[@johnwilliams1223]

Even to this day, meathead is always WRONG

[@j.d.schultzsr.9215]

Ryan Taylor, Just because the bought & paid for extreme court helps you feel like a he-man, does not mean that you are right. Have ALL Supreme Court decisions been good for all of us? You might not think Dread Scott was a good idea, unless you are White. You might not think so if you were a tax-paying Japanese-American Citizen who lost your means of support & home, only to have yourself and your family consigned to a horse stable or prison camp. "A WELL-REGULATED MILITIA BEING NECCESARY TO THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." A strict "originalist" interpretation of the (by definition potentially revised) Second Amendment, means that as long as you are a White, male head of household, you are entitled to a muzzle loader over every fireplace in your home, so help you God. Why are you so insecure (or obnoxious) that you always feel someone is going to kill you unless you are constantly armed?

[@j.d.schultzsr.9215]

@@johnwilliams1223, "Archie is always right"? That kind of nonsense is just like saying, "Popeye is always right." Archie Bunker is a FICTITIONAL character. HE NEVER EXISTED! Norman Lear produced All In the Family to graphically illustrate the absurdity of REACTIONARY (which today's children have adopted as conservative) "logic" carried to its ultimate extreme. Why don't you go back to your 7th grade video games instead of insisting that a FICTIONAL 70s right-wing TV character "was right" because YOU THINK he reflects your faux"news", not-so-brightbart, RTV, "news"max brainwashing.

[@johnwilliams1223]

@@j.d.schultzsr.9215 Yeah whatever dude. Stick up your CNN MSNBC indoctrination bs. It’s obviously working on your smooth brain.

[@scottnyc6572]

Meathead was and still is living up to his role today.

[@Red22762]

Yeah he is even a bigger meathead today!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Funnyweirdediter]

You mean he’s intelligent not a Trumper?

[@SkunkApeFLA10]

@@Funnyweirdediter No, he's a pinko libtard.

[@repent.sinner]

Right, pure disgrace.

[@DanO181919]

@@Funnyweirdediter 👈Meathead

[@Champerj]

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.” - James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789

[@mainlymusicman]

archie was right here. the first statement stands on its own.

[@carminemurray6624]

I agree wholeheartedly. A well regulated Militia being necessary to a free State, The Right of "The People" to keep and bear Arms, shall NOT be infringed. The first Clause does not in anyway nullify the second clause, since The People are The Militia, hence why The People need to be Armed, so They can serve in The Militia.

[@robwilde855]

Indeed. I think a lot of people today think that a 'militia' is the same thing as the 'military', or army.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@robwilde855 Well yes, that happens to be the case.

[@leebaldwin6015]

@@bigverybadtom no actually,it's not. The militia is the citizenry,civilians....and no,the national Guard is not a true militia,they are under control of the U.S.Government,the very individuals for who the 2nd amendment is intended to curtail in the event of overreach or tyranny.....the right of the PEOPLE,Shall not be infringed

[@samcoggins7191]

"What do your people think about guns?" Lionel, "Well that depends on whose holding em." Lol exactly

[@jmorris023]

Ton of low key racism in that statement.

[@joelweisstuch4572]

He was the most right out of any of them 😂

[@heishephaestion4178]

*ahem* inner city Chicago *cough* New Orleans *ahem*

[@cbjackets4436]

@@heishephaestion4178democrat run cities, yes

[@jacobslep3650]

It isn't "democrats" portland doesnt have insane murders, nor do liberal places that are majority white Poverty isnt the issue either, appalachia is the poorest region & has the lowest murder rate. They are also one of the whitest areas in the world. ​@@cbjackets4436

[@robintst]

The more things change, the more they stay the same. This writing on this show was so sharp. Still holds up now given the current climate of things.

[@wrigleyville]

There has not been a sit-com in the last fifty years to even come close to this one. Nor will there ever be. The reality, plus the fact you can get a laugh and learn very valuable lessons at the same time. In a class of its own.

[@victorkreig6089]

That's because we literally have been stagnant, honestly since the end of the 50's we havent moved an inch. That's why its the same old tired arguments

[@Florida46]

@@wrigleyville Norman Lear is an absolute comical sitcom genius. He went into unchartered water with all in the family. No TV writer and producer had ever dared to make fun of the American racist. Norman Lear showed with brilliant comedy what an absolute imbecile the American racist is. At the same time Archie had that teddy bear side of his character that didn't ever mean any harm. Norman Lear is almost 100 years old now and I watch his podcast all the time. I'm just glad that as a kid growing up in the mid to late 80's my dad subjected me to reruns of that brilliant masterpiece of a TV sitcom.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@Florida46 A blowhard a la Ralph Kramden?

[@TheGrades90]

It wouldn’t hold up if we were able to enact and enforce stricter gun control laws. The only reason it’s still relevant is because idiots like Archie refuse to change

[@Blazefork]

Archie is a legend

[@nobodynobody7729]

The funny thing is Norman Lear was a leftist and created Archie to be the "villian/bad guy" in the series. But he ended up being the most relatable and the most loved character in the show. 😂

[@rickmassey1272]

He didn't create him to be the villain. He wrote him to be the average white male. Archie didn't just hate blacks,he hated, italians, polish,jews,gays,young people,and even white christians who diagreed with him... basically he hated everyone who he diagreed with no matter what race, color,creed. Archie Bunker was prejudiced against everyone,white,black, asian,latino. That's why as a black man I couldn't hate archie Bunker or even dislike him he was the most honest,real, character on television. I understood why Lionel liked him.

[@robertwoodpa6463]

@@rickmassey1272 Obviously you never watched the show. He was all bark. At the end of the day he was a kind man. Lear described the Archie character as an old school guy adjusting to a changing world. Remember him doing the Bat Mitzva for his adopted niece? Sorry to ruin your narrative. Archie was far more tolerant than your average Leftist today.

[@robvegart]

Relatable and reliable commonsense. I wonder if Norman Lear acknowledged that Americans with guns turned the tide of WWII even give thier lives, so that Jews like himself, and Shmuck Screwer can be free without having to look over their shoulder... A land where Jews have been successful due to the individual sovereign freedoms only attainable in the US. Many Jews are not out right leftists. Bibi is no leftwinger. Israel's Gov is predicated on common man law.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@robertwoodpa6463 A good pacified white conservative male.

[@nothingtodo58]

I perceived Archie as an unintelligent, ignorant bigot. I remember thinking that bigots would probably not like watching AITF because Archie's part was clearly written to make bigots look as bad as possible. But perhaps bigots DID like the show because they perceived Archie as the good guy and Michael as the bad guy.

[@realazduffman]

How can the state "buy back" guns they never owned?

[@justinsimmons2715]

I performed a background check on the federal government. Based on their history of violence and drug running, i cannot sell them a gun.

[@kaycee4357]

@@justinsimmons2715 🤣

[@albertgaspar627]

same way Republican Supreme Court justices say "eminent domain" is totally legal, so long as the government "Fairly compensates". edit: when I posted this I used "grab oil in Iraq after declaring WMDs" but, every year some Sgt Schultz says "I wuz dere, I saw natzing!" So, allow me to save you some time. if you actually served your country in the sandbox, you do know that in fact, you are only told what you need to know. Perhaps you learned this on a FOB, when some sector was off-limits due to some TF TADing up da joint. Maybe you asked a question about something funky going on outside your AO and you got warned, "that's above your pay grade, son!". Hell, even your own CINC is not told everything--its called "plausable deniability". I used to work with a Vietnam vet who SWORE drug use during that "police action" was nothing like portrayed in the movies. All the draft vets laughed at him, knowing full well how much battle hash they tried. BUT, we figured out why he said what he said--he was a volunteer Jarhead who left in 1969. In other words....his experience was correct. But it sure as hell didn't reflect what was going on. Ever hear the story of the three blind men who find an elephant in their way? They can't see the big picture, so they can only identify the problem by what they can touch.

[@paulnewkirk7351]

@@albertgaspar627 grab oil? They don't have enough oil to cover the lives lost riding them of Sadam Barry Hussain and ISSI. AND they didn't lase 1 barrel of oil. Suggesting that we took anything from them is ridiculous. They didn't pay us anything. That is pure communism. Get back in the car and hold my hat Jr.

[@cynthiaclarke3979]

@@justinsimmons2715 - Could be a bunch of felons too..like Puta O'Dork..

[@JP-cb8bz]

The reason I give everybody is, I'd rather have it and not need it then need it and not have it.

[@James_Barris]

As if you need a reason, or a need to explain it to anyone.

[@acemulligan7010]

Just like the fire extinguisher in my kitchen.

[@Revernd]

I have a concealed carry license and I own 1 hand gun, 1 rifle and 1 shot gun. My son was a felon and my mom expunged his record and he killed me with a shot gun

[@a.grimes4202]

​@@James_Barris Sad fact is, the average American doesn’t give ½ a shit about statistics, but from 1994-2004, when federal gun control actually waa q thing here in the U.S., that decade saw a 70% reduction in violent crime across the country. Coincidence? I think not.

[@nordicexile7378]

@@Revernd He killed YOU with a shotgun?!? Are you a ghost?

[@sharpestjim]

"What the Supreme Court says ain't got nothin' to do with the law." Classic Archie line. I remember the show really well from when it first aired. Too bad that I was too young at the time to appreciate it.

[@itsaguinness]

"As an American its my right to pack a rod" Archie Bunker

[@timothy3732]

Archie is the moron meathead and Mike is right!

[@jdtractorman7445]

@@timothy3732 You do realize it's acting. But Reiner is still a meat head.

[@dariowiter3078]

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[@dariowiter3078]

@@jdtractorman7445 👍👍👍👍👍 👏👏👏👏👏 😁😁😁😁😁

[@hydrogamer471]

@@timothy3732 You do realize as a living organism it is your right to ensure you continue to live? Why do you want to die?

[@peteherrera1502]

The second amendment Is saying that the American people have the right to keep and bear arms which shall not be infringed upon period. And the purpose of the 2nd amendment is so that, if necessary, the American people can form a militia in order to keep a state free from tyranny, both foreign or domestic. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State. From what you ask? from tyranny, both domestic and foreign, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

[@NaneeH63]

You're right.🇺🇸

[@maddierosemusic]

@Michael Rich Well, what if the .Gov was acting treasonous - like allowing millions of illegals to flood the country, OR, like knowingly and wantonly NOT look into crimes committed by Democrats, like Hillary's breach of security with the computers - etc, YOU or I would go to jail. Our Government is Treasonous and must be held to account - clearly the Ballot Box got taken off the list as a restorative measure.

[@stanleymyrick4068]

@Michael Rich I bet you think the South were treasonous then? Even though Davis and the Southern Generals were not tried for treason because the fear was that in a court of law it would be found that succeeding was actually legal. The government then changed The Republic of these United States to The United States, removed all Southern congressmen and had them replaced, and basically moved an occupying force south.

[@TommyDaSavage]

@Michael Rich you gotta be some kind of stupid. The 2A is there to take up arms against a tyrannical government. I take it either you quit school at 5 or you have a masters. Educated moron who doesn’t know shit about the English language or history.

[@waynecarter4200]

@Michael Rich good call mike

[@tomsmith2013]

Aftrer all these years Archie's still addictive.

[@kennyhuskisson2684]

And still makes sense!👍✌️

[@tomsmith2013]

@@kennyhuskisson2684 No, not really. He was funny because of his iblatent gnorance and the masses in the same boat.

[@raybray70]

@@tomsmith2013 I think Archie would know how to spell "after"

[@mygreatdefenestrator]

@@tomsmith2013 His ignorance was indeed funny, but that didn't mean he was always wrong.

[@tomsmith2013]

@@raybray70 Obviously a typo Ray. Get back to me when you've had five promotions just to be an a**hole.

[@paulsorensen6643]

Great show. Today all the comments stated on this show would offend the Democrats.

[@DanielKatzel]

Sounds good to me.....

[@Joey-JoJo-Jr.64]

All In The Family. The greatest satire tv show of all time.

[@patricklind4827]

What a funny and thought provoking show. Ahead of its time in so many ways

[@321gates]

Yep, little did we know that the woke, Marxist Left would cause this country the problems that they have. Even as a kid though, I knew Archie was usually right, no matter how they attempted to portray him/conservatives. So, I guess I was ahead of the times also.

[@vinista256]

It was actually very much of its time. It’s the country that’s gone backwards 😕

[@HMMELD]

@@vinista256 We now see the result of unabated gun proliferation in the country and where it's gotten us

[@vinista256]

@@HMMELD Yes, and that unabated gun proliferation can be traced back to the NRA’s “Revolt in Cincinnati” in 1977, which was 5 years after this episode of All in the Family aired. From that time on, the NRA, which had been an organization for responsible marksmen, has devoted its efforts and funds to thwarting gun control legislation. The views of Mike Stivic (Rob Reiner) were considered mainstream in 1972, and Archie was just plain nuts.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@vinista256 The USA has had very strong gun control laws for decades. Needless to say they have completely failed to stop gun violence at all. Don't scapegoat the NRA.

[@northernking4787]

This show is needed now more than ever!!

[@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602]

Northern It's here and being watched, but the people who might learn the most from it are misinterpreting what they're seeing. They think Archie's the older, wiser one with all the right answers, while Mike is the younger one with all the confusion and misinformation!

[@100Aces]

Did anyone EVEN REALIZE that the newscaster giving the editorial was none other than the GREAT SORREL BOOKE! BOSS HOGG from the Dukes Of Hazzard! How cool!

[@newmanoutdoors1564]

Your right

[@LAT-qk3vj]

That's awesome haha! Good eye!

[@sinjin90ful]

Great eye i missed that and I have watched him in Mash and dukes of Hazzard for years

[@100Aces]

@Jose ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE! Watch family feud, Dukes of Hazzard vs. Waltons listen to him talk! Its him!

[@mindriot91_96]

I think he played Archie's supervisor in a few episodes.

[@deborahchapa1965]

We are the militia. Get them Archie.

[@joe-vz6hx]

far and away the greatest sitcom ever. you'll never see such a combination of intelligence and humor in a show ever again, regardless of your beliefs. instead of avoiding sensitive topics, they took them head on.

[@davidmarshall7752]

It's true, each of us sees what we agree & disagree with presented in strong terms. I do wish someone would try making a controversial, dialog-based sitcom today.

[@spaceclown7650]

@@davidmarshall7752 They won't try, because they'd be canceled in 5 seconds as soon as the lunatic fringe complained about it hurting someone's feelings.

[@davidmarshall7752]

@@spaceclown7650 Not if it was on HBO or someone willing to air a show *all kinds of people would watch* , if only for the controversy. We're talking big ratings. Money talks.

[@Biggdoom344]

It was definitely ahead of its time..episodes included rape, breast cancer, unemployment, white flight, anti semitism, womens rights, hate crimes, abortion, swingers, menopause, pms…it goes on and on.

[@comicbookfan19]

Married with children was the same show updated for it's time

[@cheefsmokealot4479]

😆😆 “would it make u feel any better little girl if they were pushed out of windows?” 😆😆🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@retroguy9494]

What if they're on the ground floor? 😜

[@saxmaster121]

Exactly! 🤣🤣

[@chuckfinley6747]

@@retroguy9494 still could’ve died from cuts received from the glass. Or they could’ve fallen and broken their necks. Or hit the temple on the side of their head and died that way.

[@retroguy9494]

@@chuckfinley6747 Broken their necks from falling out the window on the ground floor? And that would have to be some pretty sharp glass to to bleed to death from cuts from breaking the window.

[@chuckfinley6747]

@@retroguy9494 people have tripped over something walking and broken their necks before. It is all in how they fall. As far as the bleeding to death, it depends on the glass. Plate glass is extremely sharp. I watched my step brother fall into a window with plate glass and it cut him deep up both of his arms. He required a blood transfusion and over 40 stitches to stop the bleeding. If we hadn’t have wrapped his arms in a towel he would’ve died on the way to the hospital. And it was a singles story house.

[@chrismcphail5378]

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." - George Mason (co-authored second amendment)

[@lalagomorph]

This. Best comment. Needs a thousand likes.

[@chachichochacorta8577]

Here is the entire quote by Mason. “I ask, Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor; but they may be confined to the lower and middle classes of the people, granting exclusion to the higher classes of the people.” “Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia. […] This was a most iniquitous project. Why should we not provide against the danger of having our militia, our real and natural armed strength, destroyed? The general government ought, at the same time, to have some such power. But we need not give them power to abolish our militia. If they neglect to arm them, and prescribe proper discipline, they will be of no use. I am not acquainted with the military profession. I beg to be excused for any errors I may commit with respect to it. But I stand on the general principles of freedom, whereon I dare to meet any one. I wish that, in case the general government should neglect to arm and discipline the militia, there should be an express declaration that the state governments might arm and discipline them. With this single exception, I would agree to this part, as I am conscious the government ought to have the power.” Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1788

[@martytrueblood5902]

what happens when you can not steal any more land though?.. now you have to be accountable... besides.. you use made in Japan that is losing a total race war when you use Asian customs..

[@kittyday1402]

@@lalagomorph Y'all's militia likes to SHOOT SCHOOLKIDS IN THE FACE. Happy now?

[@michaelconfoy2862]

Source? Madison didn't have co-authors on the bill of rights. In fact, the current text was a truncated version by Congress making it confusing in modern times. Source, "James Madison: A Life Reconsidered" by Lynne Cheney. Original text by Madison that makes his intent clear: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person." Quit making up history.

[@brianwolters7560]

This show was the epitome of "fair and balanced"...you could choose a side and still love EVERY character...wow...where is this kind of writing now?

[@strangevisions5162]

look at the education system in effect now

[@spaceclown7650]

Edith especially. Edith was usually the only one actually trying to do the right thing, despite being called a dingbat all the time. The other three were too busy pushing their own personal political beliefs and their own agendas.

[@FractalFabrication-mg8fu]

People on the left have no idea what humor is, or what funny is, and therefore the writing is shit.

[@edwardkiernan]

No it wasn't. Many of Archie's position were defensible, but he always expressed them with the dumbest arguments and made those who held them appear ignorant, just as Normal Lear intended.

[@strangevisions5162]

@@edwardkiernan and yet looking back, Archie was still right 90% of the time!

[@trish9900]

I watch him every night. My daughter had every season shipped to me. I was so excited and still am. Simple but speaks his mind. Weird how all this stuff is repeating. Guess history repeats itself for sure RIP Carrol O Connor and Jean Stapleton. Priceless.

[@bobs1356]

Gloria was as dumb as meathead.

[@Theresalove34]

45 years later republicans have the guns and democrats have VD

[@gregb6469]

Two first-rate TV performers.

[@tomryan914]

@@Theresalove34 That's STD!!!...VD(gobble)🚫 gives sissies⛸🍍 AIDS!

[@DanielKatzel]

History repeats itself because they can put all the woke crap they want on tv these days & it still won't change the truth.

[@zacharyporter5639]

I used to watch that show as a young kid. I'm 50 now, and still to this day, I love that character Archie Bunker!

[@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602]

zachary Be careful how you love him. Either you love his acting skills and character portrayal, or you love his bigoted, racist remarks! You can't love both.

[@JohnSmith-xi2oq]

We need this show back on tv.

[@colinkillian9265]

If wouldn't survive the first episode, as mobs of shrieking libs would demand immediate action and have it cancelled. Can't have any portrayals of right wing thinking on modern television, even if both sides are presented like we see here.

[@brenparker1156]

i’m 21 and have such good memories of watching this show with my grandparents. you can definitely tell that this sitcom was like THE blueprint for many sitcoms

[@ronaldkonkoma4356]

Oddly enough, Til Death Do Us Part must get the credit as the blueprint for the modern SitCom. Then watch some Man About the House (Three's Company) and after that, get your hands on Steptoe and Son which launched the career of Redd Foxx

[@ronaldkonkoma4356]

Although they did take That 70's show and make it Days Like These, so your call if it's a fair trade

[@RhondaPhillips-o2p]

I'm 52 and remember watching it with my grandparents. How does someone whos 21 remember watching it with their grandparents?? You werent even born yet, you were still swinging in the sack! 😂🤣

[@ronaldkonkoma4356]

@@RhondaPhillips-o2p Calvin Klein will have to explain reruns to you.

[@randocommando6826]

​@@RhondaPhillips-o2pshow me a 21 year old who understands this humor of this era. I'm 46 BTW, fuck I'm getting old lol.

[@mindriot91_96]

"That ain't the Constitution, Edith, what you said was the Gettysburg Address" 🤣🤣🤣

[@stansmith7108]

When he said that, I immediately thought of Joe Biden...you know, the thing.

[@4seasonsbbq]

That was hilarious

[@Roadwarrior1318]

@@stansmith7108 lmfao 🤣

[@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602]

"All you have to do is take it to a notary republic."

[@TheBatugan77]

Gun control... Use a good solid stance and front-sight focus.

[@TheChristonline]

Don't forget your breathing !

[@inquizition9672]

Remember also whether you already have a round in the chamber or not. Your life could depend on it

[@brynredmon7869]

Aim small, miss small

[@raydude9208]

Control your gun, and you will not be the victim!

[@rickycowan6969]

Don't forget trigger discipline.

[@suzsnnesanders4742]

Whenever I watch these videos I can almost hear my dad laughing he loved this show, what I wouldn't give to see him laugh to this one more time

[@Bream243]

you will

[@D.J.81769]

Same here.👍

[@mechelleh8883]

Me too.

[@ericschneider8524]

It was a much better country when parents were married and a forklift operator could pay all of the bills. Register and vote in every election. Support your county sheriff.

[@makoshark69x96]

I know what you mean ! And being Black we laughed like crazy at ALL of the jokes ! They said when they did this stuff in 1970, it was so hard core that they were waiting for the Hate Mail about the R@cism.... but it never came ! Everybody was too busy Laughing to complain ! But it would be great to go back to the 70s.... Everybody was Young.... and EVERYBODY was still alive ! Uncles, Aunts, Parents, Grand Parents..... the passage of time sucks !

[@stevedyches4635]

The same old stuff today as then, imagine that.

[@wwlll8248]

"The Supreme Court ain't got nothin' to do with the law!" How true.

[@bigverybadtom]

The Supreme Court rules on whether a law can be upheld or not.

[@cuchulain1647]

@@bigverybadtom Dred Scott decision.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@cuchulain1647 Yes, one instance.

[@claytonbouldin9381]

The more things change....

[@quanahhurtt4443]

How prophetic.

[@pattimccraw6168]

archie was the best, he always had a great come back

[@80sruledherestogreateras46]

When Archie makes sense........ Oh God I miss this kind of comedy Hell I miss comedy in general

[@jason_v12345]

The entire basis of this show's comedy is that Archie never makes sense.

[@clembob8004]

@@jason_v12345 Archie makes perfect sense to the Trumpistan Banana Republicans because they are just like him.

[@dontneedtoknow5836]

Depends on who's holding them. Man ain't that the truth.

[@dontneedtoknow5836]

@todd long let me guess you think biden is?

[@dontneedtoknow5836]

@todd long if only you could see all of my comments. :-D I'm on everyone's list.

[@420scene]

One of the best shows of ALL TIME.

[@mandolorion8456]

I was 9 yrs old when this aired and I still think Archie is right and meathead is still a meathead

[@johnmavroudis2054]

You obviously never bothered with education.

[@blueacetv4549]

@@johnmavroudis2054 as many of them are

[@VenomClawman]

@@johnmavroudis2054 so your in favor of gun control

[@johnmavroudis2054]

@@VenomClawman I'm in favor of common sense gun laws. There's no "taking away everybody's guns." But there's no reason people should be packing weapons that can kill 100 people in under a minute, either. COMMON SENSE.

[@jonathanfrancesco3305]

@@johnmavroudis2054 And yet pretty much every time there's a mass shooting, the place where it happened had those very common sense gun laws in place. Criminals laugh at common sense gun laws. And if by "education," you mean a certain amount of time in a classroom, that might not be a bad thing. Big Education has become less and less synonymous with education with every passing year. This is why we have so many adults with expensive degrees who don't even know the basic functions of their government. "Education" these days doesn't educate. It just repeats a collection of political OPINIONS and passes them off as fact.

[@richsleyster2656]

“Would it make ya feel better little girl if they was pushed outta windas .” LOL

[@MCCrleone354]

“Would it make you feel better if they was shanked!?”

[@josephasner171]

@@MCCrleone354 : would it make you feel better if they were run over by cars?

[@josephasner171]

Rich Sleyster: Whether they were murdered by guns or pushed out of windows, They would still be just as dead.

[@Barnabas555]

Once the tyrants take the guns then its the knives like England

[@LMAODOODZ]

*windas

[@pavelthedog6939]

I noticed that Rob reiner is against every social injustice except nepotism.....

[@myname604]

Archie Bunker is the smart one in this!

[@charlesvan13]

The Supreme Court has sided with him also. "Well regulated" in the language of 1788 meant well equipped and effective. It didn't have the meaning it has today--lots of rules and red tape.

[@raveousone]

@@charlesvan13 the part about the right to bear arms and the part about a militia are also separated by a comma as well because they are different matters put together because they are related by a common purpose. the right way to read/interpret it is that the people have the right to bear arms and to have a well regulated militia

[@jessesimmons4503]

@@raveousonecommon people make up the milita.

[@raveousone]

@@jessesimmons4503 in the 1700's a militia was basically a military force of peasants either drafted or by a voluntary basis to deal with emergencies so yeah obviously...technically the united states is all common people we don't have nobility on a side note 99% of soldiers in every countries military forces are common people since those in power almost never join the fight

[@Fredg111]

Carroll O Conner was a Communist

[@davidcooke8005]

Lionel's answer is always the answer. Always has been, always will be.

[@percys9427]

Carrol O'Connor is a Legend

[@davesmith3561]

Carrol O'Connor was a brilliant actor. Rob Reiner just played himself, a true meathead!

[@HMMELD]

@@davesmith3561 O'Connor was a liberal in real life

[@michaelharris4995]

Rip Carroll o connor we love u

[@bigverybadtom]

@John Soboleski O'Connor may have been a liberal, but he failed to prove that conservatives are fools and liberals are smart. It turned out that Meathead was wrong on a lot of things.

[@larrystone9474]

@John Soboleski Wrong sugar pie.

[@kevinashley478]

You know what a militia is? A group of citizens that musters to defend their state or country. The PEOPLE refers to the citizens of the USA.

[@sonybell6774]

The militia is the last line of defense against an invading army and the first line of defense against a tyrannical government.

[@andytseros7724]

40 years later and Reiner is still a meathead!

[@cynthiaclarke3979]

And a sack of shit..

[@TheWedabest]

@@cynthiaclarke3979 true!

[@rp5707]

Carrol O'Connor was as liberal as Reiner. He was also a lot better actor.

[@cynthiaclarke3979]

@Forty Six - His resume even includes he's a piece of shit..

[@rp5707]

@Forty Six - I love that you think you know what a typical liberal is. I guess I can make a ridiculous claim too. A typical conservative is a uneducated racist. The difference is, I know I am making a ridiculous generalization and you don't.

[@bobbysands6923]

Archie is drop-dead funny...always.

[@bulldawg7232]

When i was a kid i used to think Archie was pretty fat. By today's standards he's in decent shape for his age.

[@bluebandit1281]

Barney's wife Blanche called him "Fatso"

[@ellismarquez8410]

Rob Reiner is fat, no question.

[@curtisboswell2619]

@@ellismarquez8410 Yeah, as his opinion of himself, and his ideologies grew, so did his beer-gut. My opinion of Rob Reiner, and his politics are pretty sub-basement.

[@davidshuff2700]

Was just thinking the same thing I used to think of Archie is fat but he really wasn’t

[@vinista256]

It speaks volumes about our country that Archie is no longer considered fat and his views no longer considered laughably regressive.

[@conservativewarrior777]

There's an Archie Bunker in every American taxpayer!

[@backagain5216]

You mean a comic?

[@bxjibaro73]

SPEAK FOR YOURSELF!

[@ShawnRavenfire]

Forty years later, and we're still having the same discussion.

[@snipervision1]

I know and if everyone who could legally get a carry permit, carried a gun think how much safer we would be today. CCW saves lives!

[@Hun_Uinaq]

Yes, but it’s not as funny.

[@eveisdesigner]

@@snipervision1 You clearly live in a fairytale world, where no one who could legally acquire a gun would ever misuse it. Get off the internet once in awhile.

[@emptypocketsjobs3545]

Just days from 2021 and still the same discussion. I love Archie and I love my guns!

[@itsme.D]

Pathetic, isn't it

[@garylobo348]

Edith: Oh hello Lionel, come on in! Lionel: Oh no Mrs. Bunker, I don't want to disturb your quiet evening at home

[@josepachaco1128]

What's crazy is this shows subject matter is what we're dealing with today, that's what makes it timeless.

[@laserbeam002]

Archie's side won out. Most states now allow at least conceled carry. Some allow open carry.

[@fricksphonesux5054]

No doubt. I grew up with this, Barney Miller, Jeffersons, etc. Great great shows that wouldn't fly nowadays. Especially though, in Barney Miller, the timeless subjects, political, violence, unexplained esoteric subjects that Sgt Dietrich was famous for stumping everybody with. I own these, still watch them and I love them.

[@bobt5778]

Dietrich was priceless!. I love the episode where they confiscate a college students project that he claimed was a prototype nuclear bomb. No one at the precinct believed him. Then Dietrich strolls in and says " where did you get the nuclear bomb"?

[@joeldavis8851]

I liked Wojo the best. Like when he told Barney... I'm having trouble in bed. I mean I sleep all right and everything... Lol

[@polynesiangrooves7112]

Fricks phone Sux agreed 1,0000%

[@Kgio-2112]

Rat patrol was great too.

[@FallouFitness_NattyEdition]

My dad got me into Barney Miller a couple years ago. We watch together every now and then. Such a great show.

[@kiloknight94]

i'm 27 and watched this show since i was a little kid with my parents and it was some of the best times of my life i'm glad they introduced this show to me and given me so many laughs

[@richardsmith1331]

i Love to watck Archie Bunker. b

[@supporterofeverythingyouli6255]

No you didn't! Lol

[@Prophecynut]

@@supporterofeverythingyouli6255 that's what i was thinking. But they were reruns so it still works

[@robertcalderone5998]

Kilo Knight...I am 69 and remember when this show premiered in 1970 as a teenager 17 years old. Remembering my parents aunt and uncle laughing at Archie and Edith.

[@Cola64]

Depends who’s carrying it “

[@SuV33358]

".........Duke Wayne...Clint Westwood, buddy!" 😂😂 I ❤ Archie

[@ChadQuick270W]

I love Archie’s malapropisms and mixups. Priceless!! This is just hilarious 😂

[@carminemurray6624]

Academy Reward was one. They wrote Archie as a blunder head, but there was truth mixed in there too. Taking the moral high road does not equal Justice or Sainthood. Like the Catholic Priests condemnation of LGBTQ ➕ yet buggering young Preteen Boys.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@carminemurray6624 Sorry to burst your bubble, but most child molesters aren't Catholic priests or even religious believers.

[@user-ex9zm7bg3x]

veryclose veins

[@ThekiBoran]

I liked it when he said Jackie Robinson changed the complexion of the game.

[@bigverybadtom]

@@ThekiBoran There were black professional baseball players before Robinson. As well as the Negro Leagues.

[@udz24]

Filmed in front of a live audience. Carol was great! They all were great!

[@selfdo]

Carroll O'Connor was what drove this show. As further proof of his tremendous energy and talent, he was very much a liberal, and actually quite erudite and educated.

[@jdc9528]

I think I'm becoming Archie more and more each day.

[@USMCArchAngel03]

Me too. I think that means we are doing thing right lol.

[@ersturdevant2831]

Same.

[@scottkinney7878]

I've been Archie for 20 years😂😅🤣

[@anthonygarofalo559]

You and me both

[@kindredspirit3875]

2021-4

[@clubmike2910]

The funniest part is everyone thought Rob Reiner was acting, but he really is that stupid.

[@gnrrailroad1531]

Never give up your guns. Your going to need them soon enough.

[@stevehood444]

You’RE going to need them when they send you back to school to learn to spell!

[@jbfan6360]

We need them right now.

[@dannelson8556]

@@jbfan6360 yep to defend our democracy against the right wing Nazi fascists trying to destroy our republic.

[@jakejones5736]

When the government says you don't need an AR-15..... you need an AR-15.

[@dannelson8556]

@@jakejones5736 well the government tells me I can't own a nuclear warhead and an ICBM so I suppose that means I need to run out and build one real quick. I mean if we're allowed to own weapons capable of taking on the US army then to hell with an AR-15 I want tactical nukes.

[@tarkus4283]

Ted Nugent" I went Out of town and Left my AR-15 on the Table. When I Came Home., It Hadn't Shot Anyone

[@speedyspooley]

Ted Nugent...the draft-dodging chicken-hawk.

[@tarkus4283]

@@speedyspooley it's easy for you too say.. You've accomplished so much more with your life ., Thank you

[@speedyspooley]

@@tarkus4283 - I never dodged the draft only to become a fake tough-guy war hawk....so I've done more than Ted Nugent.

[@tarkus4283]

@@speedyspooley yeah said that already. Thank you again

[@Kgio-2112]

@@speedyspooley most men didn't wanna go to Vietnam. Everyone was hoping to getva high number

[@justinbrockshus8483]

High energy in these deliveries of lines by the actors.

[@SOffenbach]

Don't touch the 2nd amendment.

[@pablohernandez9405]

The Second Amendment should have been abolished years ago.

[@keithbailey6843]

@@pablohernandez9405 Don't like it, then leave.

[@ricklee6196]

@@keithbailey6843 You first gun nut

[@larrybaker5316]

yeah, Kamala says "keep the government out of womens body"...well sister 'keep the govment outta our firearms"!

[@jonathanjoyce-clarke2885]

​@@pablohernandez9405 You my friend are very misspoken.

[@nsnopper]

I saw this when it first aired over 40 years ago. It’s still dealing with current events.

[@theoriginaldab]

More like just shy of 50 years by no more than 1 year... Hell it might've even aired in 72... Can't remember since I've slept since then

[@iluvdrywall]

I think the writers of this skit included wording, thoughts and ideas from both sides of the issue, like they were showing an un-biased opinion. Too bad our current media cannot do the same.

[@colinkillian9265]

This... Though Archie was the butt of the joke he wasn't overly portrayed as ignorant, they allowed for both left and right wing positions to be held and without overtly condemning either side. Just allowed the audience to choose how they wanted to see each character. If anything it showed that political bias is always going to be within any modern society and that it's always best to discuss these issues without fear of reprisal.

[@3182john]

True, Fox News could learn a thing or two

[@FallouFitness_NattyEdition]

@@3182john Same can be said for CNN

[@bobbysands6923]

No one can write anymore...not the news, not in TV, not in film. And if they can they are made to change it.

[@bloppysloppy4057]

Yeah but they always portrayed Archie as the dumb uneducated one but to me had more common sense.

[@thomasspringer5738]

Archie won this one ! A well regulated militia necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A militia is the people of a county , town, city, or rural community, and the rest is self explanatory.

[@hetmanjz]

The "well-regulated" part is self-explanatory, eh? LOL, as in you gun nuts love "explaining it away"?

[@John_Malloy]

@@hetmanjz Giving the government more power by saying that only the government (police) should be armed is not compatible with the purpose of the Bill of Rights, which is to LIMIT the power of government. And no wording in the 2nd amendment should be interpreted so as to infringe on an individuals, God given, right to self defense.

[@justinwaters8679]

@@hetmanjz I will explain it to you, A militia is made of the People, regular citizens who want their rights to defend themselves and their areas. "Well- regulated" does not equate to "government run and controlled". I wont try to "explain it away", because I know the true History and Context. .

[@mckessa17]

It's working real well, the US has more murders by guns then any other country in the free world.

[@edwardsomers5037]

@@hetmanjz Jan, let me 'help' you here: The 2nd does not require people to be in a militia to have guns. It requires Congress to leave people's right to bear arms uninfringed, BECAUSE without that right of self-defense and protection the state cannot form a militia of the people, when it is required to do so. It would necessitate a standing, armed army, which Washington felt was a bad thing for a government to be in control of. For your understanding, at the time of writing all able bodied males of adulthood were considered a de facto militia. You do not need to separately belong to one...

[@MidnightHozz]

Amazing. Sad that this would get all involved fired and banned for life now.

[@memeshort5515]

Today they would try to "cancel" Archie,meathead would be some type of snowflake hero

[@williamroyt1296]

They have a show , with a snowflake, it called the last man standing

[@Supertzar999]

Today, Archie Bunker would own a Harley and listen to Metal music around the house. Meathead would wear a manbun and a Bernie t-shirt.

[@memeshort5515]

@@Supertzar999 and meathead would be unemployed living with his inlaws just like the 70s

[@Supertzar999]

@@memeshort5515 Yep. An unemployed hipster. Probably vegan too. Archie on the other hand is a motorcycle mechanic and owns his garage. Episodes include arguments over breakfast when meathead denies Archie bacon and eggs in favor of avocado toast. Also Meathead lecturing Archie over the lyrics in his music. Say's it exploits women and promotes toxic male behavior.

[@dharmabeachbum6330]

@Krazee Kracka MAN LOL. You got that right

[@josephgreemaniv267]

For all the people that want to focus on "a well regulated militia" when the founders penned that line they were succeeding from the rule of Britain and made it clear that it was each person's right and their obligation as Americans to keep and bear arms so that the PEOPLE were the ones in control of the destiny of the country, not the government or any potential foreign ruler. Militia refers to the minute men and others who would take up arms against the tyrannical oppression of the ruling class of Britain. Having this unalienable right bestowed upon EVERY citizen of the country would forever guarantee that the true power of the country would forever remain in the hands of the people. Look into our history understand who the founders were and what they were fleeing when they formed this new world. Understand what they knew and what they were ensuring by providing these rights to the people. Us, the people.

[@martytrueblood5902]

plus.. you could steal first nation land by genocide while you used black labor snickers.. yah. .smooth Boston tea party with a mad Tri hatter

[@anthonyhaughin5177]

So we'll said! Those are the facts!

[@ernstbrehm1135]

Truth right there!!! The problem is, to many people don’t know & don’t care about our history!

[@johniorio7951]

right, and i feel the whole thing is out-dated and obsolete. It might have been right in those days, but we are not too worried about england these days...the threat now is the crazy people with automatic guns.....time to change that right, or ammend it...I am sure the founding fathers would agree too.

[@albertgaspar627]

except...not really at all. The folks who said "all men are created equal" owned slaves, so they didn't want ALL people to have rights, just certain people. And of course the Second Amendment doesn't mention ALL men, nor women. Does that mean women can't be armed? If we agree there's wiggle room in that simple problem, then there's wiggle room everywhere--what is labeled a "slippery slope". As far as the founders coming from secession, no, they were coming from a prior form of government--the Articles of Confederation. You learned about this in school--america's first government after the war was the Continental Congress, our first president was Samuel Huntington of Scotland CT, and this decentralized government ran into a problem. the problem was it couldn't raise funds for the Continental Army, which was a standing army that became the Legion of United States (so the founding fathers didn't fear a standing army at all, but they had little respect for militias--Thomas Paine spoke of the winter and summer soldiers, a reference to militiamen who abandoned Washington nightly during Valley Forge so only the Continental Army remained) to fight against Shay's Rebellion. what was Shay's Rebellion? It was armed vets in MA rising up with their own militia, and Samuel Adams declared these (not well regulated) militiamen should be jailed. the Founding Fathers met in the nation's capital (Philadelphia PA) charged with upgrading the Articles of Confederation. Instead the 1% threw out the government and formed a new one with a general as president (in some nations, we label this a coup) and wrote the Federal papers under psuedonyms to convince the 13 former colonies to accept the change. so what was a militia even for if there was a standing army in existance? Alexander Hamilton explains it in Fed # 29. The states didn't have a state police force nor SWAT team to handle slave uprisings, militia groups, native american attacks (folks still remembered King Phillip's War) and so the militia filled the gap. The Second Amendment mentions the security of a free state, and that meant "state", not national government. The Founding Fathers, like the wealthy of today, certainly didn't want the hoi polloi to take charge of things ! why do you think there is an electoral college to dilute the will of the majority? why did James Madison warn about the threat of the minority voice taking power ? Why did Thomas Jefferson become the type of leader he said should water the tree of Liberty once he became president? The Second Amendment clearly states a well regulated militia is necessary for a state's security and should not be infringed--the Constitution was defining what was government power and what was state power. to that end, guns are needed for the milita--but only a well-regulated one. if we ever think property owners want armed folks running around DC on Jan 6 or in the streets of Fergeson MI then we truly don't understand the Founding Fathers, who didn't agree well even with each other. But then, some love the Fed bank and fiat currency in their pocket--another creation of the FF to protect their wealth but no boon to the people. finally, the 1903 Militia Act clearly defines what constitutes a well regulated militia--the National Guard. According to the Constitution, so long as a law from Congress is not challenged by the Supreme Court, that law is constitutionally valid, and so the 1903 Militia Act clearly defines who is the militia (and the National Guard tends to lock up their weapons in an armory, not let soldiers take 'em home). that's why the Second Amendment was always a state right until 2008 when a black man entered the white house (coincidence) and Ronald Wilson Reagan could take the Milford Act from a Republican, and sign it into law--a law saying the people of CA couldn't carry their guns in public without a permit. The NRA backed this law, since it was aimed at Black Panthers. Guv Reagan would of course become President Reagan, a Republican most don't associate with gun-grabbing. then again, most Republicans didn't say boo when Trump took away their bumpstocks--guess its only when Democrats do something, its wrong :) but i digress.

[@markthompson3449]

I love the "pushed out of windows" line! Right on, Archie!

[@fish9905]

I use that line on young liberals, lol they have no clue

[@sanfrancisco89]

Because you're as dumb as the character.

[@sanfrancisco89]

@@fish9905 Try that illogical thinking on this old liberal, and see how far you get.

[@HMMELD]

@@fish9905 It's a comedy and meant to be so nonsensical that it's funny - in case you didn't know that.

[@fish9905]

@@HMMELD well in my view Archie makes a very good point, it's not the violence or murder that bothers you but the weapon that triggers you

[@aronkelley8634]

Stone Cold Archie Bunker! The GOAT of tv dads! 👍😆👍

[@jjdaniels625]

Archie’s still right and Meathead’s still s f’ing Meathead....45 years later!

[@kennyhuskisson2684]

100 percent true!👍✌️

[@RepublicanJesusthe2nd]

Yeah old white men thinking...it's what has us living in a fucked up world.

[@thatsmrharley2u2]

@@RepublicanJesusthe2nd That sounds petty racist to me.

[@jupitercyclops6521]

Damn straight Archie was right. Meathead was also wrong about the militia part of it. There is is a well placed coma in there that separates that. Not to mention, seems like anyone in a militia will be targeted & set up by our tyrannical gov.

[@MarkMcDaniel]

@@jupitercyclops6521 -- Exactly, the People are the militia.

[@thelastjohnwayne]

I am a member of my own well regulated militia with the only member being myself.

[@10YearOldTom]

Ok, the Government is shaking over a one manned cuckold brigade

[@l337pwnage]

@@10YearOldTom actually, they are. if they think you have guns, they show up in an armored vehicle.

[@spydude38]

The "well-regulated militia" identified in the 2nd Amendment is we the people. The reason the 2nd Amendment was written so was to insure that every citizen of the United States had the means by which they could take up arms against a tyrannical government if need be. Nobody wants to talk about that, but in the simplest form that was the reason. The last part about "shall not be infringed" was to keep it that way. Note that the phrase "shall not be infringed" is contained in none of the other amendments to the Constitution and for a reason. So in essence you are correct.

[@fungidungie]

@@spydude38 citizen of the United States, hmm. Sounds like Rome to me.

[@RetroMMA]

It never states "Citizens", it says "the people" and the distinction is important and why immigration, legal or otherwise, is a path to legal corruption; by way of those with agendas...

[@chosenwon5618]

I love Archie and everything he stands for!!!

[@matrix91234]

You do know the show is making fun of him right? and Trump autocrat voters is the worse. Anti democratic forces. Also look up Dark Enlightenment.

[@donnaleigh6535]

Once again, Archie Bunker was 100% right, He just said it in his own way 💨🔫, 😂 🤣

[@claytonbouldin9381]

I remember watching this show when I would spend the night at my Grandparent's house. Great memories! My Grandpa used to laugh his arse off too.

[@markaungst7887]

Great word that 'arse'.

[@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602]

@@markaungst7887 He means "ass" but can't spell it!

[@rods6405]

So good to hear the word "pinko"

[@NaneeH63]

😂😂😂

[@gop4usa12]

Archie was almost prophetic when he said "would it make it any better little girl if they were pushed out of windows?" The more accurate rhetorical question is 'would it be any better if they were pushed onto train tracks?'

[@monikao.559]

Knives. Kitchen knives. Sharp, pointy, kitchen knives. Or a hammer, screwdriver, or fist. If you want to kill someone, there are innumerable ways to do it, and innumerable weapons that will do.

[@dekelanson5280]

@@monikao.559 Then it's simple. We have to ban knives, hammers,screwdrivers, fists and anything that will kill. Problem solved. LOL

[@ACitizenOfOurWorld]

@@dekelanson5280 Well that is what the laws in England are doing with regards to knives.

[@billclay9489]

@@monikao.559 True but with a kitchen knife or hammer or fist you stand a much better chance of survival or even avoiding the blow than you would with a gun. I see you coming at me with a knife or hammer I can likely evade it. You come at me with a gun. Im likely not gonna make it. Ever seen someone out race a gun.

[@Prophecynut]

@@dekelanson5280 cars too. Unless electric of course with built in safety brakes and radar

[@ferox965]

Fun fact-the newsman is Sorell Booke, later to become Boss Hogg.

[@malachimccoy4271]

As a retired deputy sheriff, gun control is NOT gun safety.

[@robbob4872]

no shit sherlock...

[@ricklee6196]

Good thing you retired or fired

[@keithbailey6843]

@@ricklee6196 Well, he wrote that he retired, smooth brain.

[@suzylux]

when the two are combined.....look out 🧐

[@usnva5638]

Could you please elaborate a bit more on what you're saying?

[@MC-yy2bx]

2:49 " Would it make you feel any better ( little girl ) if they was ( were ) pushed out of windows ? " I LOVE it !

[@rp5707]

Carroll O;Connor was an English major and a liberal, but he sure could do that role great

[@mindriot91_96]

@@rp5707 Incredible actor, perhaps the best ever on TV

[@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602]

@@mindriot91_96 I have to agree!

[@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602]

M C "windas" not windows!

[@kingeris1657]

Guns save a lot more people than they kill. Also. Guns don’t kill. People do.

[@joebish6629]

You're as stupid as Archie.

[@darrylgonzalez78]

@@joebish6629 That only shows your level of ignorance. A firearm is a weapon, but it is ONLY a weapon. So long as it is properly secured and maintained, it will not go off accidentally, therefore it requires some intelligence to fire it. I've never seen a rifle, handgun, shotgun or any other type of gun that can pull its own trigger.

[@petermargie]

People without guns cannot kill someone by using a gun. Do the math. The NRA states that your odds of needing a gun for self defense are, pay attention, essentially ZERO. Just owning a gun increases the odds of you or a family member being shot and/or killed by that gun by over 400%.

[@kingeris1657]

@@petermargie you are a meat head. this is most likely the dumbest comment I have ever read.

[@petermargie]

@@kingeris1657 I’m not wrong.

[@brandosteele4433]

Hollywood still tried to divide the issue by using this comedy show. They tried to show that the constitution was only talking about a regulated militia of men and not the people at large as a whole having the right to own a gun. They literally tried to make it a point of contention in this show.

[@leopic501]

I am with Archie on this .

[@blacbraun]

"Talking to you is like casting pearls into wine!" LOL classic Archism

[@blondiek8934]

Love Archisms!

[@MrNYCman530]

The meathead is even more extreme in real life than he is on these episodes.

[@thomaschristopher8593]

well, the democrats are insane in 2020 compared to 1970. so it's to be expected.

[@66limelight]

What the Meathead doesn't know, and probably Rob Reiner too, is that a well regulated militia is not the military, but is made of up of private citizens. Citizens who own guns.

[@charliehedrick6414]

@@66limelight i think the right to bear arms is in order to regulate the militia, to keep em in check

[@CarlCramer88]

I never knew that, jack. I’m going to have to do some research.

[@Kgio-2112]

Meathead wasnt acting...

[@sheilastutz6436]

" Well, that depends on who's holding them"😄