Hollywood has been against private ownership of guns since I was a kid ... back in the fifties.
I remember old B&W westerns in which the sheriff enforced strict gun confiscation in his territory because widespread gun ownership created a society of extreme violence.
The popular notion of the extremely violent wild west (with the exceptions of the government’s slaughter of the Plains Indians and retaliatory incidents) is a creation of Hollywood. The theme had entertainment potential, but a side benefit for the left was that it was also a platform for gun control. The fact is that the most violent of towns, Dodge City, Kansas, before gun confiscation wasn’t as violent as today’s Chicago with gun control.
Wasn’t it Gunsmoke where the sheriff didn’t carry a gun unless there was going to be some trouble?
***Dodge City, Kansas, before gun confiscation wasn’t as violent as today’s Chicago with gun control.***
True. However, such guns laws were used only against the cowboys coming in with the trail herds, not the local citizens.
In Wichita, which had a no guns policy, Hurricane Bill and his cowboys came armed into town and were met late one night by the local deputy. Someone rang the alarm bell, and suddenly about fifty ARMED WICHITA CITIZENS appeared to support the deputy.
Hurricane Bill and his men immediately retreated into the darkness, and it was said many guns were later found discarded in weed patches around town.