Common Sense: "The carrying of firearms is strictly prohibited"

[kpete]

SUN MAY 05, 2013 AT 06:11 AM PDT
Common Sense: "The carrying of firearms is strictly prohibited"
by Don Weaver


Front Street, Dodge City, KS 1878.


Let's not forget, common sense gun regulations are an essential part of American history. Even those in the "Wild West" understood that civilized society required it.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/05/1207011/-Common-Sense

[House of Roberts]

1. Not the whole city though.

"The city passed an ordinance that guns could not be worn or carried north of the "deadline" which was the railroad tracks. The south side where "anything went" was wide open."

http://www.skyways.org/orgs/fordco/dodgecity.html

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Also from your link

During those early years, Dodge City acquired its infamous stamp of lawlessness and gun-slinging. There was no local law enforcement and the military at Ft. Dodge had no jurisdiction over the town. Buffalo hunters, railroad workers, drifters and soldiers scrapped and fought, leading to the shootings where men died with their boots on. And that created a hasty need for a local burial place - Boot Hill Cemetery. It was used until 1878. For six years before Boot Hill, Dodge City had no official cemetery. Persons dying who had friends, money or standing in the community were buried in the post cemetery at Fort Dodge. Others, penniless or unknown, were buried where it was convenient to dig a hole.

At least common sense prevailed to the extent that *reasonable people* saw that mayhem & murder was an untenable situation. It's a sign of a civilized society that the NRA hacks & flacks seek to overturn at every opportunity.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. The Wild West was not as wild

As the NRA flacks tell us...