BLUE BLOODS Season 5: Episode 9 - Under The Gun

[Oldgringo]

We enjoy the TV series BLUE BLOODS without interruption thanks to NetFlix and/or our ROKU. Our last night's segment presented an interesting commentary on citizens' rights and obligations to defend themselves.

[Charles L. Cotton]

Please give us a short description, at least of the core message.

Thanks,
Chas.

[E.Marquez]

Jamie: Linda was buying a gun.
Erin:For Danny?
Jamie:I don't think so. She took out a permit.
Erin: What, you knew?
Jamie:Well, after the fact.
She used her commissioner courtesy card to expedite the paperwork, and the C.O.of the license division gave me a heads up.
Erin: Does Danny know? FRANK: Don't know.
Jamie: She asked me not to tell him.
Erin: Then don't. She wasn't kissing another man in the gun store. She wasn't shoplifting a weapon in the gun store. She was buying a gun, legally, in the gun store. Nobody's business but her own and whoever she chooses to share it with.
Jamie: All right. Danny finds out I knew and didn't tell him, I'm sending him after you.
LATER AT THE TABLE
Gramps:Well, if you ask me, who cares if they want to put on a few extra security guards? Not a few.
Are they paying for 'em?
Frank: That's not the point.
Gramps: Then it's nobody's business if they do.
FRANK: The Times ad sends a message that they had to pick up my slack.
It doesn't say that, Dad.
For all intents and purposes, it does.
When did you get such a thin skin, Francis? DANNY: Yeah, I gotta side with Gramps on this one.
People got a right to protect themselves however they see fit.
So long as it's within the law, whatever helps them sleep at night, right? Mmm.
Yeah, I'm with Danny on this one.
Are you now? Yeah.
Jamie, Nicky? I think people got a right.
I mean, isn't it like the right to bear arms? No.
Uh, yeah, kind of.
Yeah, in that you also have the right to pick a peashooter or a cannon? Exactly.
I flew El Al once, to a chiefs conference in Israel.
This was in the early '80s.
We all thought that their security was ridiculous, way over the top.
anyone who ever flew El Al wishes that all airlines were like El Al.
This isn't that.
I'm not saying it is.
I got eight people at this table who depend largely on the NYPD for every roof, meal and pair of shoes they ever had, and I can't get one of you to recognize that this is an insult to that institution? I'll be with you if you want.
Me, too.
FRANK: Well, thank you, boys.
I hate to say it and I can't believe I am, but you're thinking like a politician here.
I would never do that.
You're looking at it one way only, namely, how it reflects on you.

[WTR]

I quit watching Blue Bloods after this episode, as they acted like the " gun" was evil and only the Police should have a gun.

[Oldgringo]

Please give us a short description, at least of the core message.

Thanks,
Chas.

Danny and his partner were looking for a three time murderer on a motorcycle. They determined that his next victim was a nurse. They located the nurse who was out walking her beagle. The motorcycle murderer rode by and shot at the nurse and the nurse shot him. She had a carry permit. Danny's wife said she didn't want her CC gun. The episode left it up to the viewer as to whether CC was right for the person.

Given that the setting is NYC, I thought the subject was well presented; obviously, not everyone did.

[WTR]

About the only thing it showed was that the Police can't protect you, so you better do it yourself.

[kragluver]

I saw this episode a while back and thought they handled it fine. The story is set in NY. So they dealt with it from a NY perspective. If anything, I thought it came across as pro 2nd amendment. I seriously doubt Selleck would be involved with anything that wasn't. At the same time, I felt it was even handed and not an in your face ad for the NRA.

[Oldgringo]

I saw this episode a while back and thought they handled it fine. The story is set in NY. So they dealt with it from a NY perspective. If anything, I thought it came across as pro 2nd amendment. I seriously doubt Selleck would be involved with anything that wasn't. At the same time, I felt it was even handed and not an in your face ad for the NRA.

...or the anti-gunners.

[mdubtx]

Nice timing as my wife and I just finished this episode tonight. I thought, in the end, it was pretty even handed. One character who had a permit and a concealed handgun that saved her life. Another who realized it was not something she was comfortable with.

[John Galt]

I saw this episode a while back and thought they handled it fine. The story is set in NY. So they dealt with it from a NY perspective. If anything, I thought it came across as pro 2nd amendment. I seriously doubt Selleck would be involved with anything that wasn't. At the same time, I felt it was even handed and not an in your face ad for the NRA.

[kragluver]

...or the anti's

Excellent addition to my original post OG. IMO the episode didn't favor either side but did make a good example of why citizens have the natural right to self defense.