Lol. In the wild west, people had to check their guns in with the sheriff before entering a city. That's a big reason why there was relatively little crime in cities.
RE: Anarchy On The Frontier
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Right, that's why most of your showdowns occurred in the 'cities' back then. Because their gun control measures worked. Most of your communities in the Frontier and the West didn't even have any real police. They might have appointed someone to walk around and deal with drunks and outsiders, but there was little in the way of any 'law' in those towns. Furthermore, most of the 'gun control' back then applied to those coming into town. Those who lived there had and often carried, openly, but, just like I don't let strangers come in my house armed, small communities didn't want outsiders to be as readily able to cause trouble. For the bigger towns and cities, they often discouraged carrying of any type for a number of reasons but most notably for 'appearances' in order to attract businesses and investors.
And even though we are ignoring the fact that I'm not really getting into the cities of the West like Dodge and Tombstone, we can go ahead and put this to rest fairly easily by pointing out that there is no corraborative evidence to show that those 'laws' contributed to the lack of crime.
Where only the law had guns, you will see a rise in criminal activity, armed and unarmed, as you need only escape a handful of men. But it was in the small towns where carrying was the norm that you saw many of your criminals dealt with and it was those towns that criminals typically avoided being in for more than a night or two unless they were traveling several men deep. Even then, they feared the posse over the Sherrifs far more than most want to admit.
No matter how you spin it, when you let communities take care of themselves, they do so and typically better than the state has ever managed.
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I love the example because it shows how people went about designing their own towns or communities. There are hundreds of anecdotal answers to the "What if" posits by statists. Hell, the range wars are a perfect starting point for cautionary tales for community organizers. Dealing with power concentration--which happens whether or not government is part of the community--is easier because we have examples all over the West. The reactions of the settlers are also historical examples of hundreds of "if ;then" scenarios. When faced with native people who weren't happy about the invasion, some stayed and fought, some moved on, and some....called on the government to 'handle' the problem. Without government, the attempted genocide would not have happened. There would have been skirmishes, battles, and wars, but without the massive concentration of power (control of resources), they would have looked much different.
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