From: sgrimm@dimensional.com   
      
   "Bass Guitar God"  wrote in message   
   news:20030814023733.09150.00000529@mb-m05.aol.com...   
   > >Oh, please.  The Clantons did not violate any city ordinance despite what   
   > >the Earp hypestorians (yeah this is deliberate)might have your believe   
   since   
   > >they only quote section one of the Tombstone Ordinance and omit section   
   two.   
   > >Read that section two and see if you think they were in violation.   
   >   
   > EXCUSE ME but the Sheriff asked them polietely several times to disarm.   
   Gave   
   > them plenty of chances. Just like Bush gave Saddam plenty of chances to   
   disarm.   
   > Lot's of parallels to these two situations, if you haven't already   
   noticed... I   
   > suppose Bush would by like Earp and Blair would be like Doc.   
      
   The sheriff was trying to stop a confrontation and was actually trying to   
   get the group to leave town.  He was NOT trying to disarm them because they   
   were in violation of any ordinance.   Your previous statement said they were   
   required by law to hand over their guns.  This is not true.  Talking to the   
   Sheriff is not an inidication you are comitting a crime.  State the   
   ordinance the Clantons were ignoring.   
      
   >   
   > >Tell me what Doc accomplished in his life.  My list is blank.   
   > >   
   >   
   > Oh for pete sakes he had his own medical practice which he built from   
   scratch.   
   > He made a name for himself. There's a lot to be said for that. How dare   
   you?   
   >   
      
   What practice?  Doc had a degree in dentistry and once he came west, he   
   occasionally pulled teeth.  He did not have an established practice in any   
   one place in the west.  It was Wyatt's biography, followed by historically   
   inaccurate movies and then a TV series which made Wyatt and thus Doc a   
   household name.  It was not their contribution to the west which did this.   
   Doc and Wyatt are two characters where western history has blown their   
   contribution out of proportion.  Name a town founded by either, name a trail   
   blazed by either, name a geographical wonder first seen by either...you   
   can't.   
      
   If you want to read about a real gunfight between lawmen and "outlaws", read   
   about the gunfight at Ingalls, OK.  Now that was a gunfight.   
      
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