Comments on: How wild was the “Wild West”, in fact? http://libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/07/how-wild-was-the-wild-west-in-fact/ Property - Prosperity - Peace Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:59:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Herman King http://libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/07/how-wild-was-the-wild-west-in-fact/#comment-3049 Herman King Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:30:16 +0000 http://libertarianstandard.com/?p=499#comment-3049 Where do you get your stats about modern crime? They’re fantasy.

]]> By: VMC http://libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/07/how-wild-was-the-wild-west-in-fact/#comment-2898 VMC Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:14:38 +0000 http://libertarianstandard.com/?p=499#comment-2898 Not sure the stats extrapolated work.
“An adult who lived in Dodge City from 1876 to 1885 faced at least a 1 in 61 chance of being murdered—1.65 percent of the population was murdered in those 10 years.” Thats high.

Based on the most recent Uniform Crime Report (compiled by the FBI), an average US citizen has about a .000054 chance per year (nationwide, local stats are varied). multiplying that by the average life span (about 70 years), the average citizen has about a .00378 chance of being murdered in their lifetime. I’ll take the modern day thank you.

“homicide rates in the West were extraordinarily high by today’s standards and by the standards of the rest of the United States and the Western world in the nineteenth century, except for parts of the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction”

http://cjrc.osu.edu/researchprojects/hvd/hom%20rates%20west.html

]]> By: Juan Fernando Carpio http://libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/07/how-wild-was-the-wild-west-in-fact/#comment-1953 Juan Fernando Carpio Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:55:34 +0000 http://libertarianstandard.com/?p=499#comment-1953 El Viejo Oeste era más pacifico y con menos crimenes que nuestra era socialista actual. http://bit.ly/jkqR7W Cc: @LuisMiCORDOVEZ

]]> By: Juan Fernando Carpio http://libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/07/how-wild-was-the-wild-west-in-fact/#comment-1773 Juan Fernando Carpio Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:12:24 +0000 http://libertarianstandard.com/?p=499#comment-1773 ¿Sabían ustedes q el Lejano Oeste no era como en las películas? Más pacífico q cualquier ciudad grande latinoamericana. http://bit.ly/kxeQOE

]]> By: Carlos Acuria http://libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/07/how-wild-was-the-wild-west-in-fact/#comment-1486 Carlos Acuria Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:42:00 +0000 http://libertarianstandard.com/?p=499#comment-1486 RT @jfcarpio: ¿Qué tan "salvaje" era el Viejo Oeste norteamericano? 15 veces menos que Guayaquil en el 2010 http://bit.ly/gn6IEd #MuchoH …

]]> By: JuanFernandoCarpio http://libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/07/how-wild-was-the-wild-west-in-fact/#comment-1487 JuanFernandoCarpio Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:38:02 +0000 http://libertarianstandard.com/?p=499#comment-1487 ¿Qué tan "salvaje" era el Viejo Oeste norteamericano? 15 veces menos que Guayaquil en el 2010 http://bit.ly/gn6IEd #MuchoHollywood @gacostac

]]> By: Justice for All Without the State « Eclectic Thoughts http://libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/07/how-wild-was-the-wild-west-in-fact/#comment-1443 Justice for All Without the State « Eclectic Thoughts Sat, 25 Dec 2010 01:33:30 +0000 http://libertarianstandard.com/?p=499#comment-1443 [...] basically Stateless societies, or nearly so. Consider: Ancient Iceland,6 Ancient Ireland,7 the not so Wild, Wild West,8 and Pennsylvania from 1681 to 1690.9,10 Bryan Caplan, “The Anarcho-Statists of Spain: An [...]

]]> By: slim934 http://libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/07/how-wild-was-the-wild-west-in-fact/#comment-527 slim934 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:39:59 +0000 http://libertarianstandard.com/?p=499#comment-527 It looks like your hyperlink for Sweden having double the criminality of New York is not working properly.

All it is doing is linking to an article archive which does not actually lead to this statistic.

]]> By: Juan Fernando Carpio http://libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/07/how-wild-was-the-wild-west-in-fact/#comment-181 Juan Fernando Carpio Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:29:24 +0000 http://libertarianstandard.com/?p=499#comment-181 I’m glad you liked it, Wilt. I hope to see more written by you here or LRC soon. We need Alstonian wits to keep us awake.

]]> By: Juan Fernando Carpio http://libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/07/how-wild-was-the-wild-west-in-fact/#comment-180 Juan Fernando Carpio Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:28:57 +0000 http://libertarianstandard.com/?p=499#comment-180 I’m glad you liked it, Wilt. I hope to see more written by you here or LRC soon. We need Alstonian wits to keep us awake.

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