Remember, it's TV, not real life, so they have to ad a bit of 'excitment' to it. I don't know the stats, but if I had to make a somewhat educated guess I'd say there were no more shootings in the Wild West than there are nowdays, in proportion to the population, and proably alot less if we knew the truth. Then take into the account that a larger percentage of the population was armed, typically out of necessity since a firearm was a tool to them, and the stats get even better.
Like JackE says, look at the current statistics. When laws are passed creating extreemly restrictive possession requirements, or even worse outright bans, the crime rates go UP. When the laws on the books are enforced, and others passed to give people the right to carry and defent themselves the crime rates go DOWN.
What really gets me is that too many people can't see that firearms in the hands of honest people are a deterent to criminals. If this was not the case then why do polticians, celebrities, sucessful business people, etc have armed guards around them? Could it be because the presence of firearms owned legally for protection are in fact a deterent for criminals, or is it just because they are the "elite" and need protection from mobs of us poor underlings? In reality no one but a crazy person is going to create problems in the presence of others as well, or better armed than they are. If they are that crazy then I, for one, don't want to be standing there with nothing but a big target on my chest. Instead I want to be armed and able to protect myself and my family from crazies like that. To that end, there's absolutely no 'Cowboy mentality' behind that, it's purely an act of practicing the right to self preservation....and who wants to bring a knife, ball bat, or whatever to a gun fight??????
That said, do some online searching of the web sites with message boards similar to this and devoted to firearm related things. Read about the anti-gunners rant and rave about people who carry being a menace, or whatever because they don't possess the mental control to not just 'start shooting for no reason'. Then said anti gets in the face of someone carrying and begins their ranting and raving as they protest a gun show, etc. Based on their reasoning the gun owner would simply get upset, draw their handgun, and shoot the protester because they can't control themselves. Thing is this doesn't happen because legal, law abiding, responsible gun owners are just that, LEGAL, LAW ABIDING, AND RESPONSIBLE......enough said.....
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