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October 15, 2013
Checked but Never Claimed
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 15, 2013 9:53 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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There is no trigger guard.
Posted by: Potsie at October 16, 2013 4:46 AM
The article was thoroughly leftist. guns are evil white men are devils crap. I barfed it after a couple of screens.
Posted by: Fat Man at October 16, 2013 12:01 PM
I'm really just here for the illustration.
Posted by: vanderleun at October 16, 2013 2:39 PM
Shoulda read a little deeper, big guy:
'The simpler the Wild West tropes got, the more damage they did to American culture. In the 1950s, mothers began to complain about all the violence in TV westerns, so the studios responded by toning it down. The honorable hero would shoot the gun out of his enemy’s hand and win a gunfight without hurting anyone.'
“The Hollywood version of the Wild West had a huge impact,” Bell says. “One of the most shocking things in the Vietnam War, which was all run by Baby Boomers, is we had an actual Army edict that we wouldn’t fire unless we were fired upon. Well, that came straight out of a diet of Westerns that came out after mothers got upset about all the violence on TV. All of a sudden we get into a war, and they’re saying we can’t fire unless we’re fired upon? That’s straight out of the myth of the Old West, but it never happened in the Old West. It’s a dangerous belief.”
Sounds pretty clear-eyed to me.
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