Nation: Justice: A Bad Week for the Good Guys

I wondered why it is that the westerns survive year after year. Perhaps one of the reasons, in addition to the excitement, the gunplay and the rest—and this may be a square observation—the good guys come out ahead in the westerns, the bad guys lose. In the end, as [Chisum] particularly pointed out, even in the old West there was a time when there was no law. But the law eventually came, and the law was important from the standpoint of not only prosecuting the guilty, but also seeing that those who were guilty...

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