July 27, 2012 06:20 PM UTC

Gun Control Not A New Issue

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• by: madmike

The issue of gun control is in the news a lot right now.  But gun control is not a new issue.  It’s been around a long time.  For example, in 1881, Tombstone, Arizona had an ordinance that prohibited anyone from carrying weapons within the town limits.  One day a group of cowboys, looking for a fight, flaunted their weapons openly around town, essentially daring the town marshal to take them away.  The town marshal at the time was a guy named Virgil Earp.  He took the bait and deputized his two brothers, Wyatt and Morgan, as well as an alcoholic gambler by the name of Doc Holliday, to join him in disarming the cowboys.  They found them loitering in an empty lot behind a local livery stable.  When the cowboys wouldn’t give up their weapons, the shooting began.  It became known as “The Gunfight at the OK Corral.”  Just thought you ought to know.