Comments on: Wild West http://www.pagunblog.com/2009/07/15/wild-west/ The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State ... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:24:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Harold http://www.pagunblog.com/2009/07/15/wild-west/#comment-46165 Harold Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:23:11 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=11680#comment-46165 And <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffeyville,_KS#History" rel="nofollow">Coffeyville, Kansas</a>. And Coffeyville, Kansas.

]]> By: comatus http://www.pagunblog.com/2009/07/15/wild-west/#comment-46152 comatus Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:48:17 +0000 http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/?p=11680#comment-46152 Louis L'Amour just wouldn't shut up about how people deserted the disarmed and life-threatening cities of the East to seek civility and order on the frontier. Every time I hear the Wild West meme invoked, I remember his estimation of what would happen if a gang rode into a western town shooting and whooping it up, when three-fourths of the population were Civil War veterans, and carrying. Then there's Northfield, Minnesota, which is a lot like what happened in this case. Louis L’Amour just wouldn’t shut up about how people deserted the disarmed and life-threatening cities of the East to seek civility and order on the frontier. Every time I hear the Wild West meme invoked, I remember his estimation of what would happen if a gang rode into a western town shooting and whooping it up, when three-fourths of the population were Civil War veterans, and carrying.

Then there’s Northfield, Minnesota, which is a lot like what happened in this case.

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