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   Message 132 of 1,275   
   Steve Grimm to Bass Guitar God   
   Re: "DOC" HOLLIDAY   
   14 Aug 03 21:43:21   
   
   From: sgrimm@dimensional.com   
      
   "Bass Guitar God"  wrote in message   
   news:20030814221323.10944.00000041@mb-m14.aol.com...   
   > >You were allowed a reasonable amount of time to check your gun after   
   > >arriving in Tombstone  The ordinance does not state what the time period   
   is.   
   > >Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton arrived in town less than an hour prior   
   to   
   > >the gunfight.   Also, the ordinance was loosely enforced.   
   > >   
   >   
   > What are you saying? SPIT IT OUT!!!!!! ARE you saying that Wyatt Earp used   
   the   
   > law as an excuse to murder these people? Come come now let's not tapdance   
   > around the issue.   
   >   
      
   The whole OK Corral scenario is often twisted showing how the brave Earp   
   lawmen were enforcing the gun ordinance which is not true.  The Earps went   
   to the OK Corral because they felt threaten and not for some higher noble   
   cause of enforcing the law.   
      
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