Quote:I can only assume that the appeal of western gun-slingers tales goes a long way indeed.
If you ever read any actual historical accounts you'll see that the "western gun-slinger" model is a dime-novel and Hollywood invention. The gunfight at the O.K, Corral was about the Earp's intention to enforce a gun control ordinance.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/23/...e-20110123
Quote: And one fact is usually ignored: Back then, Tombstone had far stricter gun control than it does today. In fact, the American West's most infamous gun battle erupted when the marshal tried to enforce a local ordinance that barred carrying firearms in public. A judge had fined one of the victims $25 earlier that day for packing a pistol.
"You could wear your gun into town, but you had to check it at the sheriff's office or the Grand Hotel, and you couldn't pick it up again until you were leaving town," said Bob Boze Bell, executive editor of True West Magazine, which celebrates the Old West. "It was an effort to control the violence."
They lived a long time ago but they weren't stupid. Whereas today Arizona's legislature has actually allowed guns in bars. What we have today - a republicunt majority of course - are dumb fucks.