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Anonymous asked: Posting an Old West ballad reminds me that, in my experience, one of the largest cultural chasms across the Atlantic is that Americans are pre-programmed to accept vigilantism as acceptable in some circumstances, and Euros seem not to be
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the Civil War until WWI while railroads happened people just deadshit had no idea what a unified country would even mean and worked up the craziest local shit

Also I should point out that that song was first released in 1960, after the \u201csinging cowboy\u201d vogue that came in with talkies, I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s fair to call it an \u201cOld West ballad\u201d

The singer was inspired by a gun he saw in North Hollywood, and used his country music career to fund his hobby of NASCAR racing, so still pretty \u2018Merica though

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