What’s your point? Kansans were inundated with wild gang bangers in the 1860s and 1870s fresh off of trail drives from Texas. These signs were for the strangers who were shooting up the towns.
I don't know if I have one. It was an interesting find -- something you see reflected in Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven but not elsewhere in the popular culture. I guess if there's a point, it's that not all gun ordinances were directed against slaves or minorities.
Kansans were inundated with wild gang bangers in the 1860s and 1870s fresh off of trail drives from Texas. These signs were for the strangers who were shooting up the towns.
That is true (though I don't know if any gun laws affected the citizens of the town).
But what if we were to ban "strangers from out of town" from carrying guns today? How would people react? Would that be a reasonable measure? An infringement of gun rights? An invitation to prejudice and profiling? Would it be a good thing or a bad thing? Would it work?
****These signs were for the strangers who were shooting up the towns.***
This is true and the law was not for the local people. There was such a law in Wichita. The sheriff arrested a Texas cowboy for carrying and, that night, his friends, armed to the teeth confronted the sheriff.
Someone rang an alarm bell and the cowboys were confronted with local citizens, all armed, backing the sheriff.
It was said that for months, discarded handguns were being found in weed patches where the cowboys dropped them so they would not get arrested.
The above is from THE GUNFIGHTER by Joseph Rosa. University of Oklahoma press. 1969.