Livin’ the Dream 0
Mel Schwartz and Jesse Schwartz try to probe the origins of gunnuttery. A gunnugget:
The violent “Wild West” of gunslingers and shootouts was a myth nurtured by dime novels, then by Hollywood.
It would appear that the writers of the above have bought into that myth as fully as have the gun nuts who fantasize of being the Man with No Name or his latter-day counterpart, Dirty Harry, packing heat and spraying lead when the mood strikes.
That indicates the power of the myth over the reality.
The dream: every city, Dodge City; every hill, Boot Hill.
