Modern Gun Violence and the Wild Wild West
In doing historical research, it is easy to find charm in so much of our past. The wild west with it's gun slingers and armed prostitutes seems empowered and bad, in that good way like when you cheat on a diet for a really really good dessert. It can be funny or at least entertaining. There is an appeal to the anything goes culture of the times, the lack of civilization, the seeming lack of rules, as opposed to the overwhelming number of rules we abide by (most of the time) n