Gun Control: The Role Of Violence In The Wild West

During the 1900’s the West had become a romantic and visual appeal for most Americans because of the effects from Wild West shows. These traveling productions evoked dramatic myths of the West, from heroic cowboys to the life of being an outlaw. This cloud of glamor had blinded the people from the “real” Wild West, causing them to be attracted to the land, solely by the popularity produced by the shows. The Wild West shows are contrastive to the Western frontier and continue to serve as the main view for American popular culture perception because of the settlers violence with Indians, a perception of gun control, and the idea of the cowboy being born in America. The encounters with settlers and Native Americans in the West became

The productions had romanticized violence by displaying both men and women using firearms for hunting, protection, and recreational purposes. In reality, some towns in the West had strict gun control because of the expansion of towns and communities. In Tombstone, Arizona lawmakers had strengthened their ban on weapons to outlaw anyone who carried deadly firearms within town limits. Other towns had required visitors to either legally drop their weapons at governments stables or turn them into the Sherrif. This strict security of deadly weapons in the West is greatly contrastive to our modern day principles of gun control and proves the shift of our histories containment on the topic of violence. Today the United States is number one in firearms per capita and has the highest homicide-by-firearm rate than anyone in the country. Although the Wild West shows were not accurate in displaying the strict control of firearms, this ignorance has reflected onto our modern day principles. Not only do the Wild West shows create irony between reality and mythology but also contributed to the discovering of the American

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