Robyn, sweetie, it's just a TV show. It does try to make 19th century frontier life interesting to 21st century viewers, and no doubt strays into the anachronistic mistake of forcing our current value system into a context a couple centuries ago.
What Tombstone is NOT is some sort of metaphor for life, and if that' how you're reading it, you need to turn off the teevee and get out more...
A good one. I'm surprised liberals watch it but those who do see it very differently from how conservatives view the Western as a genre.
( No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)