{"id":273,"date":"2009-02-17T21:44:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T21:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2009-02-17T21:44:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T21:44:34","slug":"dispelling-the-myth-of-the-wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachuslex.com\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Dispelling the myth of ‘The Wild West’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"These are interesting times in the fight to protect and enhance our rights as gun owners.\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a0Wisconsin, we stand on the eve of\u00a0an historic court ruling regarding open carry<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a0Texas,\u00a0South Carolina,\u00a0Oklahoma\u00a0and\u00a0Arkansas, local activists have succeeded in making their voices heard regarding restoring open carry to these otherwise gun-friendly states.\u00a0\u00a0With all of this pro-gun activity, it should come as little surprise that the anti-gun forces are out in-force repeating their aged mantra \u2026 \u201cThis isn\u2019t the wild west.\u201d<\/p>\n

And this rhetoric is not limited to anti-gunners.\u00a0\u00a0Recently, I was quoted in\u00a0a USA Today article<\/a>\u00a0about the open carry initiatives around the country and in that article, Texas Senator Jeff Wentworth (R), a supposedly pro-gun legislator denounced open carry saying “I think that’s harkening too far back to the Wild West.”<\/p>\n

With all this talk of \u201cThe Wild West\u201d, I thought it might be informative to look at the reality of crime in the \u201cwild west\u201d cattle towns and compare them to the peaceful streets of such eastern, gun-control paradises as DC,\u00a0New York,\u00a0Baltimore\u00a0and\u00a0Newark.<\/p>\n

In his book,\u00a0Frontier Violence: Another Look<\/em><\/a>, author W. Eugene Hollon, provides us with these astonishing facts:<\/p>\n