Man who carried AR-15 on his back inside mall says charges not warranted

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175. It's a commonly held myth that the Wild West was extremely violent. ...

Hollywood made fortunes making movies about shootouts on Main Street at high noon. Such events were extremely rare.

I enjoy reading about history. Perhaps that is due to the fact that I had some really good history teachers in school. I am not quite as fond about watching movies based on history as all too often they are inaccurate and unrealistic.

I can't count the number of westerns that I tried watching where the hero or villain has a 50 round 6 six shot revolver and can do amazing feats like shooting several people at 50 yards or more while riding a horse at full gallop. When I was growing up, the good guys used to shoot their opponent's handgun right out of their hands rather than injure them. Try that in real life and see how well it works.

Many gun control advocates firmly believe in numerous misconceptions about firearms and often when I see such posts I try to disprove them. One thing that I have noticed that gun control advocates intensely dislike is facts and statistics. For 37 years before I retired I worked in a highly technical industry. Perhaps that is why I prefer to analyze a problem and try to find a real solution by examining the data.

Perhaps you were simply razzing me, which is fine, but how could I tell this?

As far as your comment about quantum physics I will merely mention a quote about quantum physics that I find interesting.

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." -- Max Planck, Physicist Nobel winner - Father of Quantum Physics