You know what would make a good double feature with A Christmas Story? The story of Ralphie who desperately wants a BB gun for Xmas?
The 1950's Dragnet Christmas episode, "The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas" episode. A few days before Xmas, an 8 year old boy is missing. There's blood outside where he was playing and a .22 caliber shell casing. And it turns out he had gotten into his presents and found the rifle his parents were giving him.
"What's it all prove, Joe?"
"You don't give a kid a gun for Christmas."
The NRA was outraged. They launched a letter writing campaign against the show. Jack Webb forwarded the letters to the chief of the LAPD who publicly affirmed that it was idiocy to give guns to children.
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