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Did the Wild West Have More Gun Control Than We Do Today?

"[...]This is not the wild west, and society is not 1000 miles away, this is America, we interact with everyone all day long."

Yep, more gun control than today, in the most troublesome places. Make your wish that today it was more like the Wild West as far as gun laws go.

.. a Quackenbush head with two eyes .. lol .. hey ..
whatever happened to leave the guns at the sheriff's office?

Adam Winkler - Professor of Law, UCLA
Posted: 09/09/11 04:42 PM ET

After a decision by the Supreme Court affirming the right of individuals to own guns, then-Chicago Mayor Richard Daley sarcastically said .. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-06-27/news/0806270074_1_2nd-amendment-gun-control-activists-narrow-ruling , "Then why don't we do away with the court system and go back to the Old West, you have a gun and I have a gun and we'll settle it in the streets?" This is a common refrain heard in the gun debate. Gun control advocates fear -- and gun rights proponents sometimes hope -- the Second Amendment will transform our cities into modern-day versions of Dodge.

Yet this is all based on a widely shared misunderstanding of the Wild West. Frontier towns -- places like Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge -- actually had the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation.

[ as some of the unruly places today ]

In fact, many of those same cities have far less burdensome gun control today then they did back in the 1800s.

[...]

The Secret History of Guns

The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers? They required gun ownership—and regulated it. And no group has more fiercely advocated the right to bear loaded weapons in public than the Black Panthers—the true pioneers of the modern pro-gun movement. In the battle over gun rights in America, both sides have distorted history and the law, and there’s no resolution in sight.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secret-history-of-guns/308608/ .. link inserted May 27, 2022. Today. Now. Here.

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