re backcountry confidence in article c l e gh murdoch acc virginia edu rbw q rayleigh mech virginia edu brad whitehurst writes the rest of us fall in the middle there is too much violent crime in the u s but turning the whole country into an old time dodge city ref to american old west is not the way that s an interesting statement there s quite a difference between hollywood s old west and the real one yes there were drunks saloons mining camps and thugs however as mcgrath showed the thugs preyed almost exclusively on one another mcgrath claims that this was due to the fact that no one much cared if someone who insisted on getting into a fight got his way even if he lost while they really did care when thugs preyed on others citizens should be able to own weapons but we see no sense in some types we haven t figured out that those distinctions don t actually work machine guns have been strictly regulated since said regulation is both perfect legally owned machine guns aren t ever used criminally and a complete waste of time the criminal use of machine guns hasn t change at all the result we re now arguing about guns that look like machine guns but are no different than other guns andy
