Doug wrote:


Let me get this straight, you take a study about one town and expect
me to believe that every other town at that time to be the same? Gimme
a break.

Sure.

It was you who raised the specter of "Wild West shootouts" and they were
shown, by example, to not be very violent at all.

I recall hearing that Dodge City, during the height of lawlessness, was
still tamer than its contemporaries back east.