Prof. Tom Woods: Was the Wild West Really So Wild?

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Interesting clip by Professor Woods on the real west.   His book 33 Questions You're Not Supposed to Ask About American History covers this in more detail.

Apparently the West was a lot more peaceful than the East.  People in society, guns and all, worked things out peacefully without a centralized state or national government to babysit them with gun laws and such.   What's the common thing we hear from Bloomberg Soccer Mom and Brady Bunch?  "If we let people carry guns it will be the Wild West again!"   In light of this, I say: GOOD