You would be statistically more likely to be gunned down in Victorian London than the American Wild West

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The Gunfight at the OK Corral was because Tombstone had a gun control ordinance on the books.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/23/...e-20110123

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."

Far superior to the douchebags running Arizona today.