Compared to Chicago or Baltimore, we should start calling it the Mild Mild West.
The reason the gunfight in Tombstone had drawn such attention was because such things rarely occurred. Drunks shot each other and lawmen chased down badmen, but marshals just never walked down the streets and shot it out with unconvicted and unindicted suspects.
Casey Tefertiller, Wyatt Earp
But then what would the hoplophobes use as a talking point?
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