I was watching on NetFlix the other day Dragnet and Hawaii 5-0 and was...

19 July 2013 | US Navy Vet

[US Navy Vet]

...surprised how "Gun-Grabby" BOTH Jack Lord(Steve McGarrett) and Jack Webb(SGT Jow Friday)'s Characters were. Was I just BLIND all of those years?

[US Navy Vet]

Kinda makes ya wonder.

[al baby]

What do you mean be Gun Grabby?

[Mears]

Ditto !

[Roccus]

Just the early stages of indoctrination.

[US Navy Vet]

Early(late 60s early 70s) “Gun-Grabby””Term” “Saturday Night Special”.

[Mr. K]

The indoctrination has been going on for some time

You can’t take away freedom overnight- people WOULD riot in the streets

you take it a little at a time

Communists are proud of every tiny little step ‘forward’ they make, even if they realize it could be a 100 year process they may never live to see (that’s a special kind of derangement)

[KeyLargo]

Steve McGarret

"Yes, President Carter. Whatever I can do to take guns from Conservatives."

"President Johnson just ordered me to come after your guns, you dirty Conservatives." Sgt. Joe Friday

[Menehune56]

According to IMDB, Jack Lord was "a dedicated liberal activist [and] vocal advocate of gun control in the United States." Which I admit takes away a little from my enjoyment of the original Hawaii Five-O series.

[trisham]

Interesting.

[Buckeye McFrog]

That was pretty much the prevailing trend in the 60’s and early 70’s. Things like the Death Wish movies and Bernie Goetz turned the tide.

[KeyLargo]

I heard that Jack Lord was Gay.

[al baby]

I like this one better

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

[Buckeye McFrog]

Not to mention Season 9 really SUCKED! All of the original cast except Lord had moved on.

[al baby]

I always thought he to be gay as a 3 doll hair bill

[Buckeye McFrog]

He was married twice (#2 for half a century). Talk about your loyal beard!

[jiggyboy]

Nah, just think of all those episodes where he walked into a shabby rental full of dope-smoking hippies — he’d start questioning one of them who just rambled on about expanding his mind and that crap, so eventually McGarrett would just grab him by the shoulders and shake him like a rag doll while yelling at him, “What’s the matter with you! You gonna be HOPPED UP ON SMACK YOUR WHOLE LIFE!?” Now that’s entertainment.

[Steve_Seattle]

"According to IMDB, Jack Lord was "a dedicated liberal activist [and] vocal advocate of gun control in the United States." Which I admit takes away a little from my enjoyment of the original Hawaii Five-O series."

I read in several places that Jack Webb was a conservative who died embittered over the social unrest and leftist politics of the late sixties and early seventies. I remember when Dragnet was revived for its second run, in one episode Webb/Friday delivered a passionate defense of the police and a passionate critique of left-wing anti-police gripes.

[longfellow]

Hawaii 5-0 was voted one of the most violent tv shows at the time.

[trisham]

I watched a couple of the Death Wish movies very recently. Charles Bronson was great.

[robowombat]

Jack Lord was a loud mouthed proponent of civilian disarmament. He became very rich from % O and lived in a gated mansion on Black Point in Honolulu and definitely wanted the peasants kept disarmed. He also was a major cop wannabe from his TV land performance and believed only LEO’s should have guns. A detestable man all around.