Yesterday’s New York Times had an op-ed page piece on the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Today, some 3,000 tourists will jam the streets of Tombstone to watch re-enactments of the event, aiming to come into contact with a piece of distant American history and encounter a time completely separate from our own. What’s odd about this, however, is that the social and political issues that created the context for the gunfight remain alive, and for the most part unresolved, in the American West today.
… federal versus local law jurisdiction
… gun control
… illegal immigration