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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by grow2grow on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @05:37PM (#39123546)
Guns. Guns happened.
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by ssully on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @05:45PM (#39123628)
The Wild West, very famous for not having guns.
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by lobsterthief on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @06:24PM (#39124044)
Yes, as the saying goes: “If only they had guns in the Wild West, it would’ve been _really_ Wild”
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by cafard on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @08:15PM (#39124962)
It is worth saying that Dodge City, Kansas, was a no-gun zone at one time. Cowboys arriving checked their weapons with the town police, and retrieved them when they left.
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by mulmen on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @09:58PM (#39125753)
Fascinating. How effective was that? Were there really no guns?
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by Kerb_ on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @06:31PM (#39124102)
My favorite Wild West movie scenes are the ones where the cowboys meet back to back at high noon, take 10 paces, turn around, and yell "Bang" then one passes out.
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by wolverine876 on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @09:11PM (#39125434)
Those are Hollywood, not reality.
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by dorkwood on Thursday January 25, 2024 @05:15AM (#39128004)
I don't think that's ever happened in a movie, has it?
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by ls612 on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @06:31PM (#39124101)
You missed the point. He is saying the application of state violence against the outlaws of the wild west using firearms is what caused the decline of outlaws in the wild west.
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Re:Train Robbery for Amazon Packages? More Common Than You T... by puchatek on Thursday January 25, 2024 @01:50AM (#39126936)
If that was indeed the point then his three word sentence did a very shoddy job at highlighting it.
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