Tornado Alley (PROG)

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You toss around a lot of terms you seem to have little grasp of. "Straw man" and "red herring" come to mind.


Leaving that aside, I too read a great number of Louis L'Amour novels as a young man. There were a couple hundred of them as I recall. My brother actually kept lists of all the books he read. Like your Hollywood comparison however, the adventures of the Sacketts and Cap Roundtree and company are works of fiction, not history. With the exception perhaps of "The Walking Drum" or "The Haunted Mesa" maybe one or two I'm not thinking of, they're basically just tough guy romance novels.


Do you understand the difference between myth and reality though? The roaring twenties is known for some outrageously violent people, but it turns out lots of regular people weren't actually carrying tommy guns. Do you understand this?


Lastly, if you're trying to make a point try citing some source material... here I'll demonstrate:

De-mythologizing the Wild West: gun laws were actually stricter then than now

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/23/1112703/-De-mythologizing-the-Wild-West-gun-laws-were-actually-stricter-then-than-now#


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

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-winkler/did-the-wild-west-have-mo_b_956035.html


Even Tombstone had gun laws

....

Arizonans, myself included, love to tout their vaunted independence and Western values. But when we perpetuate the idea that Arizona is some unchanging Wild West, we fall into the trap of a myth that only serves to embolden those who refuse to support commonsense restrictions on purchasing firearms.

Even the Tombstone town council of 1880 realized that some people with guns have intent to kill—and that reasonable laws could help stop them.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47366.html#ixzz2txfajzQ4