Apathetic Australians?

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Originally Posted by classicman

The typical family heading to the west had at least one gun ... or they didn't make it to the promised land - Period.

Rarely did a family have more than one rifle. One reason for wagon trains was defense because so few guns were available AND were most often single shot rifles. Better organized groups always planned so that when someone shot, another always still had a loaded gun. Contrary to the Hollywood version, guns were not so plentiful The west was not as dangerous as Hollywood (and Aliantha) would have us believe.

Even after the Civil War, Custard's company only had single shot rifles at Little Big Horn. One would never know that if educated in Wild West gun myths from Hollywood that insist the West was so dangerous. Guns were never as plentiful as popular myths would have us believe because the west was not as dangerous as those myths also promote.