• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    They would all arrive at the market and insist on being able to open carry slung AR15s, and then be utterly baffled by the concept of a weapons check.

    Like… even in ‘the West’ (yeehaw cowboys West) it was pretty common to have a weapons check at bars… because they quickly learned that if you don’t do that, well, patrons don’t enjoy the risk of getting their balls blown off while trying to throwback a shot of whiskey, because two other idiots nearby got into a fight.

    Literally the fabled Tombstone, AZ, did this, as a city wide ordinance.

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/

    Gun control is older than almost half the states in the union.