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To: Mat_Helm; All
Actually, murders were relatively rare in the “Wild West” since everyone carried.

“An armed society is a polite society.”

As an aside… car jackers, like horse thieves, should be hanged.

20 posted on 02/18/2024 4:46:14 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: Cobra64
Actually, murders were relatively rare in the “Wild West” since everyone carried.

Quite true, you were much safer in Dodge City or Tombstone in the 1870s and '80s than in New York City. Which is still the situation today.

25 posted on 02/18/2024 5:31:02 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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