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In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the Wests first notable "walkdown." One hundred and twenty-nine years later, Bernard Goetz shot four threatening young men in a New York subway car. Apart from gunfire, what do the two events have in common? Goetz, writes Richard Maxwell Brown, was acquitted of wrongdoing in the spirit of a uniquely American view of self-defense, a view forged in frontier gunfights like Hickoks. When faced with a deadly threat, we have the right to stand our ground and fight. We have no duty to retreat.

Author

Brown, Richard Maxwell

Publisher

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806126180

Subjects

Sociology, History, Humanities