Frontier towns strictly enforced gun prohibitions and had few homicides

Evidence

Contrary to this mythical frontier ethos, according to historians of the West, “prohibitions against carrying guns were strictly enforced, and there were few homicides” (Spitzer, 1995). When people entered a frontier town they were legally required to turn in their guns to the sheriff. “The Carrying of Firearms Strictly Prohibited” read a huge sign in Dodge City (Winkler, 2011). Next to disorderly conduct, carrying a firearm was the most common cause of arrest. The glorified Western-style shootouts have no historical roots. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 830

Categorization

• SEED: The gap between the Hollywood frontier myth and the historically gun-controlled West is a ready essay hook: how a fabrication came to anchor American gun culture and identity.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 830