Re: BAD LAWS + CARS + GUNS = DEATH & FEAR

On Apr 21, 7:16 pm, Zoot Katz <zootk...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:35:29 -0500, Harry Brogan
>
> <hbrogan57_AT_NOSPAM_DOT_YAHOO_DOT_COM> wrote:
> >>How homicidal was the Old West? According to the best historical
> >>evidence today, the answer is: Extremely Homicidal. Thus, another bit
> >>of academic folklore bites the dust.
> >>======================================================
>
> >>- Frank Krygowski
>
> >KUDOS to you on your research.  However, will that stand up to ALL of
> >the "old west".  Starting at about the Mississippi river and
> >continuing westward.  It would seem that the information you have
> >provided is all California and does not include other states.
>
> I'd like to know if that historic data includes the genocide of the
> native American people.
> Or maybe it was a "war" so civilian casualties don't count.
> --
> zk

Indians --like cyclists-- count for little in the West. They must be
happy with whatever space is left for them. Usually barren land, the
equivalent of the gutters the cyclists get today.