Gun owners: Do you like Wyatt Earp as a frontier lawman?
I ask because he forced gun control.
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I’ll be honest, I’m not really familiar with Wyatt Earp. Never really studied him. Got a link for your sources?
Sure, but that was a different time so what worked for him doesn’t necessarily apply today.
He did what he had to do and he lived to be an old man. I guess he did all right.
Yes. Bat Masterson as well. Died of a heart attack at his typewriter in NYC writing his sports column. Odd way to go out after everything he survived in the West. Gunfights with baddies as well as the battle of Adobe Walls, when a handful of buffalo hunters held off 800 Comanches for two days.
“No one can deny it the legend of Wyatt forever will live on the trail”. Interestingly Bat Masterson had nothing but praise for his friend Wyatt Earp, but when queried once in later years about Doc Holiday, he referred to Doc as “Psychotic”.
I used to work venues where no weapons were allowed. We wanded all women and searched all purses, and wanded and patted down all men.
Things can still get really bad.
People make weapons. Broken beer bottles, chairs, pieces of metal, pieces of barricades, etc. An unopened beer can be really dangerous when thrown into a crowd.
People get trampled, or crushed.
Lot’s of people died in South Korea on Halloween recently. No guns there.
Some guy just ran over like 15 people at a busstop in a SUV.
I guess I’m talking about large gatherings mostly.
In small towns, it’d be fine to be gun free. But. In many small towns in the South (America,) people open carry habitually and have no gun violence.
It’s a different time, and way too much has changed to try something like having a “Wyatt Earp” town…
I should mention that I don’t share the opinion that he was the type of person the old westerns depict. He was not a good person…
No he was a hypocrit trying to play big man when everyone knew he was a criminal, too.
^From what I gather, the “OK Corral” incident was nothing like it was portrayed to be. He and his boys went down there and ambushed those guys. No different from what happens on street corners all around America today. But current similar incidents are “gang violence.”
Don’t get me wrong. I think he did what was strategically advantageous. But. It wasn’t an accident. It was an organized mass shooting…
@NoMore Wyatts daddy lived in Lamar, Mo and quit police work to be a justice of the peace. Likely the reason the boys tried to be good. :)
Good men do bad things, and bad men do good things. Wyatt was a pimp and his wife ran the brothels, he was no saint.
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