Welcome BoardTracker

[Administrator]

Many of you have probably already noticed the new member, BoardTracker. This member is a bot from an outside entity (www.boardtracker.com) that will index and store all threads into it's own database. After a tedious registration/acceptance process, we have recently joined their directory. Many boards (over 10,000) integrate with this database to allow it's users to search thousands of boards at once for key-phrases and return results from other boards. While we have not turned on the feature to return results from these boards to our users, we have joined their directory to allow their users to search our threads and posts.

So lets say a member on board "xwz.com" in Guam does a search on their board for "Dodge City" or "K C Muffin" or "Policeman arrested", they will also see results from our board and be directed here.

We feel this will enhance our presence in the worlwide community and invite members from all over the world to become registered members of DodgeBoard.com.

So post away! The WHOLE WORLD is watching...

Thank You BoardTracker for bringing worldwide syndication to DodgeBoard.com.

DBA1

[Tee]

they have a seach engine there as well... I just did a search on boardtracker.com for "Dodge City" and found these results:

http://www.boardtracker.com/search/?...cat=1&filter=1

Searches many boards at once!!

Too cool!!

[lurker]

That new tracker machine's been very entertaining.... Dodge City's a very popular term and very enlightening......

I sent the editor the letter below; I used to live in Maryland (up the road in Howard County), and this kind of stuff really irks me.


Editor:

A letter from William K. Schultz ("This is Montgomery County, not Dodge City") published on 4/19, shows an appalling lack of historical knowledge about the West.

The writer's ideas about crime in Dodge City and similar places are way off the mark. Predatory crimes like robbery, rape, mugging, and burglary were almost unknown in the Old West, and that was largely because almost everyone was armed. Except for young men getting drunk and shooting each other over matters of personal honor (there was plenty of that), it was the Mild West. According to historian W. Eugene Hollon "...the Western frontier was a far more civilized, more peaceful, and safer place than American society is today." In his award-winning book on the cultural context of gun control, David Kopel quotes a study by historian Roger McGrath of the frontier mining towns of Aurora and Bodie, which estimated that the "per capita annual robbery rate was 7 percent of modern New York's. The burglary rate 1 percent. Rape was unknown...If innocent people not living in fear of criminal attack is one index of civilization, Aurora and Bodie were more tranquil, civilized places than most modern American cities... The experience of Aurora and Bodie was repeated throughout the West. One study of five major cattle towns with a reputation for violence -- Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell -- found that all together the towns had less than two criminal homicides per year."

Ironically, Schultz is correct in rejecting any equivalence between modern Montgomery County and 19th Century Dodge City. For the average citizen, a modern urban area like Montgomery County is a far more dangerous place.

Whether owning a gun for self defense should be considered an act of silly paranoia, as Schultz seems to believe, or as an act of careful prudence, is an empirical question, not a moral one. Owning a gun may understandably have few attractions for someone who lives far from the D.C. line, in a crime-free gated community patrolled by private police, in a house wired with a state-of-the-art security system. The realities of life in a bad neighborhood may be far from the understanding of people who avoid driving through them. I find it morally repugnant when those who live in better circumstances ridicule the self-defense concerns of fellow citizens who are not so well-situated.

If you made it to the last line....

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...ferrerid=36767

[Highwayman]

I found this post in the Firing Line thread interesting;

…. Besides the ready availability of amazingly large numbers of whorehouses in Western towns, I'd guess that the major reason for the low incidence of rape was that respectable women did not go out unaccompanied very often, where they might have been vulnerable to rape. This is very different today…..

It used to be fashionable for ladies to have those fuzzy hand warmers, the round sleeve that they put both hands into. Often there was a pistol in hand inside that thing as well.

Normally the only safe prey to target for a mugging was someone too drunk to defend themselves.

It’s been said that “An armed society is a polite society.” A little time spent at a gun range reminds one just how nice folks are when everyone has a gun in hand.