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Dispelling the myth of 'The Wild West'
The Examiner ^ | February 17, 2009 | John Pierce

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 ...


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1 posted on 02/18/2009 1:50:20 PM PST by JohnPierce
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The Wild West was Berkley Communist agitators rioting in the 1960s and 1970s, right?


2 posted on 02/18/2009 1:55:10 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Song of the day Friday the 13th, February 2009. - The Kinks' Sold Me Out. The American Dream is over)
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To: JohnPierce

As a disproving comment, I’m safer down at the gun-range than a hospital... statistically speaking.


3 posted on 02/18/2009 1:59:53 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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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.


4 posted on 02/18/2009 2:06:02 PM PST by LeGrande (I once heard a smart man say that you canÂ’t reason someone out of something that they didnÂ’t reaso)
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"As a disproving comment, I’m safer down at the gun-range than a hospital... statistically speaking. "

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.

5 posted on 02/18/2009 2:08:23 PM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: JohnPierce

Welcome to FR. Good post.


6 posted on 02/18/2009 2:15:43 PM PST by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: JohnPierce

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.


7 posted on 02/18/2009 2:28:58 PM PST by texmexis best (uency)
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To: JohnPierce

I’m a life long fan of the western.


8 posted on 02/18/2009 2:29:03 PM PST by Professor_Leonide (I said to the young man, "Who can ever be behind a mask?" when he showed me a photograph.)
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To: JohnPierce

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.


9 posted on 02/18/2009 2:40:13 PM PST by TWohlford
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To: JohnPierce

Why did you post two articles saying the same thing but with different titles? No wonder people can’t use search.


10 posted on 02/18/2009 2:58:17 PM PST by Krodg
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To: JohnPierce

I forgot the link...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2188603/posts


11 posted on 02/18/2009 3:00:23 PM PST by Krodg
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***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.


12 posted on 02/18/2009 5:17:07 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (14. Guns only have two enemies: rust and politicians.)
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To: JohnPierce

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.


13 posted on 02/18/2009 9:09:02 PM PST by Free Vulcan (No prisoners. No mercy. 2010 awaits.....)
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