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In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the West’s first notable “walkdown.” One hundred and twenty-nine years later, Bernhard Goetz shot four threatening young men in a New York subway car. Apart from gunfire, what could the two events possibly have in common? Goetz, writes Richard Maxwell Brown, was acquitted of wrongdoing in the spirit of a uniquely American view of self-defense, a view forged in frontier gunfights like Hickok… More >>
No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society
Tags: American, bernhard goetz, Duty, gunfights, gunfire, History, new york subway, Retreat, richard maxwell brown, Society, subway car, Values, Violence, wild bill hickok, wrongdoing