Deaths from firearms keep climbing in Texas, decades after lawmakers began weakening gun regulations

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7. No other state has ever been in love with its own legend.

They wanted the Wild West. They got it.

Unfortunately, it's wilder than the Wild West ever truly was in real life. Any town of any size had strict measures in place to ensure you weren't carrying the whole time. Enter town: check your heat - with the local law or in a hotel. Leave town: pick up your piece from wherever it was secured.

Gunfucking Texans, never wanting to be told what to do by anyone ever, at all, won't stand for that aspect of the Wild West. They want the "Four Dead In Five" every hour, every day.