Andy is advised to stop carrying a gun after shooting a stranger, leading to a heartfelt conversation about his choices and the dangers of attracting challengers. Meanwhile, in another chapter, Talia discusses her experience of watching the violent TV show 'Gunsmoke' and presents statistics comparing its portrayal of violence to the actual history of Dodge City, debunking the myth of its extreme danger.
The longest running television series of the 20th century was Gunsmoke, a western set in the notorious Dodge City, Kansas. Malcolm sweeps away mountains of legal scholarship to make a bold claim: The simplest explanation for the Supreme’s Court’s puzzling run of gun rights decisions may be that the justices watched too much Gunsmoke when they were growing up.
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