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Gun control in the Wild West
An article by my friend Dan Gifford. I have somewhere in my files records of Wyatt Earp and Johnny Behan being hailed into court in Prescott, Arizona Territory, for assault with a deadly weapon. They were separate incidents, not a fight between them.
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There was a movie with I think Clint Eastwood as a bounty hunter. There is a guy is has told that he is going to take in. The guy jumps on a horse and starts to ride away, Clint shoots the horse and the guy falls to the street and gets up shooting wildly. But he is too far away and is all over the place to hit Clint.
Clint takes a different gun out and calmly supports it and shoots the guy. Accuracy counts
Wasn't Eastwood.....was Lee Van Cleef.
Yep. Colonel Douglas Mortimer, the finest shot in the Carolinas.
Thanks - brain is old :)
so the sullivan law in NY was basically an extension of this concept. Only the favored can get permits and carry while the opposition and the public get zilch
I've read that Sullivan was a state senator and a NY City mob boss, who got the permit law passed to protect his guys from having to face armed victims when they were engaged in robbery and other mayhem. His hoodlums didn't actually get permits to carry, but their victims certainly got disarmed.
My favorite quote attributed to Mr. Earp-
"Speed is fine, but accuracy is final."