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me asked in Politics & GovernmentGovernment · 2 weeks ago

Why was town marshal in the old west able to force  rowdy cowboys coming in town to turn in their guns? What about their 2nd Amt rights?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 week ago

    The "American Frontier" period is generally considered to be from 1607 to 1920 and a lot of the places that constituted the "wild west" didn't become states until late in the 18th or early in the 19th centuries. So in a lot of the places you're thinking of they may not have had Second Amendment protections because they weren't yet part of the US. 

  • 2 weeks ago

    You could also kill a man, and walk right away as long as he started the confrontation. Left's get back to that too. Whaddya say? 

  • 2 weeks ago

    For the most part they were territories not states so the Constitution didn’t apply

  • ?
    Lv 4
    2 weeks ago

    I think child control would work pretty good too. Some of the idiots I see having kids who are idiots. That is pretty scary.

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    People in the old west learned that people walking around town with guns was a bad idea. But what did they know huh now everyone has a gun and look how that turned out 

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