No frontier town from the old west could come close to beating Chicago for violence. Or New York. Or Los Angeles. Or Atlanta. Or....
Your statement really stunned me. Hollywood built an industry, making movies about ADULTS quick-drawing and shooting each other in the Olde West. I repeat—ADULTS.
It is in modern America that kiids, mere teen-agers are the ones spewing bullets all over the cities. Not only that but teen-agers shooting don’t even make huge headlines any longer.
It is the ADULT shooters that reap the wide spread news(?) coverage and headlines. Something is backwards.
I read a book a few years ago about gunfights on the Frontier and the author pointed out that there were far more shootings in New York City in the 1870s and ‘80s than anywhere on the Frontier including Dodge City, Tombstone and Bodie.