Street Tactics: An Historical Perspective
Men have been killing each other with pistols since the discovery of the New World. Still, America has developed its own brand of gunfighting as a result of its history and society. We will will look at the historical development of "some of what we do" and by doing that, hopefully, gain a clearer picture of why some things are accepted and done.
The first chapter in this saga comes in the Antebellum South when disputes were handled not by incessant arguing and highly paid lawyers, but by the finality of the Duel. Dueling academies proliferated, and taught the best ways to prevail in the rule-driven spectacle of the duel. Combatants trained to . . . (to read the remainder of this article, please log in below.)
