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The gunfight at the OK started as a result of the Earps attempting to enforce such a law (or maybe because they were using the law as an excuse to pick a fight with the Clantons and McLaury's) but there was such a law.
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They were banning the
carrying of firearms within city limits (a common measure), not the ownership.
Blanket bans on the ownership of firearms was a phenomena that gained momentum in the 20th century (South Carolina was the only state to ban handguns, from 1903 to 1966).
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Even back in 1880's America, there would be people who never killed anyone and who, if they did, would be repelled by their own actions.
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Those are middle-class values originally created in England, and they are not intrinsic to human nature, but instead have to be learned via cultural attitudes. Perhaps they would have been found in middle-class households in towns and cities, but with a working-class drifter on the frontier? I don't think so! The "Kid" role was obviously there to accomodate '90s sensibilities and concerns about modern-day gun violence, not portray historical accuracy.
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And I would ask people living in India or other European colonies about their "revulsion" toward violence.
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I was referring to the attitudes of Europeans in general regarding violence towards their fellow citizens, not that of their expatriates and administrators in the colonies.
RD