In reply to Mike Zapino. A fallacy frequently argued by gun enthusiasts is that guns make Americans safer so long as there are good guys carrying guns along with the bad guys. The gun homicide rates in the Old West, when most men carried guns, were astronomical—annually up to 400 per 100,000 in many cattle […]
After an initial fistfight at the California Exchange, the men encountered each other again, and Shannon attacked Touzalin with a bowie knife. Could you imagine walking into a what I assume is a bank to exchange things and getting into a fist fight, let alone dying soon after. Harsh times in the Wild West! Loved […]
Sentenced to hang for murdering a Chinese miner in 1856. One governor commutes his sentence in 1857 to life in prison. Two years later, the next governor pardons him if he'll leave the state for good. And that's far more justice than the lynched Native Americans got. It boggles the mind. There's a somewhat fanciful […]
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