Posted on 02/18/2009 1:50:20 PM PST by JohnPierce
With all this talk of “The Wild West”, I thought it might be informative to look at the reality of crime in the “wild west” cattle towns and compare them to the peaceful streets of such eastern, gun-control paradises as DC, New York, Baltimore and Newark ...
The Wild West was Berkley Communist agitators rioting in the 1960s and 1970s, right?
As a disproving comment, I’m safer down at the gun-range than a hospital... statistically speaking.
I did a quick perusal of old 1800 papers once and it turned out that shovels were the weapon of choice, farmers fighting over water rights. Reality didn’t quite match up to the Louis L’Amour novels.
Yea, I'd guess that the outdoor range I use (esp in the winter) doesn't have much in the way of Staph to infect participants.
Welcome to FR. Good post.
The old west was relatively boring. Just a bunch of ranchers, cowboys, farmers and the occasional shopkeeper. East coast writers had to spice it up quite a bit.
They lied like rugs.
I’m a life long fan of the western.
Actually, some of the famous old-west towns used to require cowboys to check their guns when they came into town. Then as now, a gun in the hands of someone who is drunk and far away from home isn’t a good thing.
I’m also doubting that every shooting was recorded in the newspaper — we all know how accurate the press can be.
Why did you post two articles saying the same thing but with different titles? No wonder people can’t use search.
***Actually, some of the famous old-west towns used to require cowboys to check their guns when they came into town.***
This was standard procedure in Kansas but only for traildrivers coming through. In Wichita about twent drunk armed cowboys confronted the sheriff and threatened to bust out of jail one of their friends.
Someone rang the town alarm bell and about FIFTY armed citizens cmae out to support the sheriff. the cowboys backed down and dispersed. Discarded handguns were found for weeks in many local weed lots.
I’ve read that the frontier days of states like Tennessee and Kentucky were pretty wild. Everyone was armed and the wrong word would bring out a room full guns.
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