{"id":1777,"date":"2017-01-20T07:10:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2017-01-20T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:10:15","slug":"gun-control-in-the-wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"Gun Control in the Wild West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irony of ironies.\u00a0 The town of Tombstone, Arizona, recently proclaimed itself \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2017\/01\/17\/tombstone-site-of-the-gunfight-at-the-o-k-corral-dubs-itself-americas-second-amendment-city\/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-national%3Ahomepage%2Fcard&amp;utm_term=.25c2b5679a2e\">America&#8217;s Second Amendment City<\/a>\u201d to celebrate its gun-toting past and Arizona\u2019s current status as \u201cthe most gun-friendly state in America.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Ironically, the famous gunfight at the OK Corral occurred because the outlaw Clanton gang violated Tombstone&#8217;s 1881 gun control law, which required visitors to check their guns at the sheriff\u2019s office until they left town.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1779\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1779\" class=\" wp-image-1779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wyatt-Earp-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wyatt-Earp-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wyatt-Earp-494x705.jpg 494w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wyatt-Earp-450x643.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wyatt-Earp.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wyatt Earp<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tombstone\u2019s legendary hero, Wyatt Earp, was attempting to enforce this law when the gunfight erupted.\u00a0 By celebrating guns, Tombstone seems to be siding with the cattle thieves and stage robbers against its own historic law enforcement officers.\u00a0 For a great historical novel about Tombstone, check out &#8220;Epitaph,&#8221; by Mary Doria Russell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irony of ironies.\u00a0 The town of Tombstone, Arizona, recently proclaimed itself \u201cAmerica&#8217;s Second Amendment City\u201d to celebrate its gun-toting past and Arizona\u2019s current status as \u201cthe most gun-friendly state in America.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0Ironically, the famous gunfight at the OK Corral occurred because the outlaw Clanton gang violated Tombstone&#8217;s 1881 gun control law, which required visitors to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[113,106,112,105,114,115,111,60],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-american-west","tag-arizona","tag-epitaph","tag-gun-control","tag-mary-doria-russell","tag-open-carry","tag-second-amendment","tag-tombstone","tag-wyatt-earp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}