There’s no shortage of stories about crime and criminals on the nightly news, these days. It seems we’re currently trapped in a cycle of violent criminal activity, with the bad guys holding communities all over our nation, hostage.
We’ve seen this problem before in America, especially during that span of time from the “Old West” through the Great Depression, which was filled with criminal activity. In the early part of that era, the crooks rode horses, but by the time it was over, they were driving cars to make their getaways.
A number of those crooks didn’t get away, however, because armed citizens banded together to fight them. Instead of suffering these crimes as helpless victims, whole communities rose up to fight and stop the criminals.
RevolverGuy readers probably recall some famous examples of this, like the James Gang’s defeat in Northfield, Minnesota, and the Dalton Gang’s defeat in Coffeyville, Kansas, but there were others. With crime exploding all around us today, it’s probably a good time to look back at some of those examples from our past, and remember a time when Americans didn’t put up with this kind of nonsense.
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