09-15-2017, 06:18 PM
(09-15-2017, 04:43 PM)eric Wrote: There seems to be a belief here that America has just recently started to look up to people who break or bend the law, but let us go down memory lane. Jessie James was a thief who shot passengers when they would not surrender their wallets. Billy the Kid, as ruthless a killer and cattle rustler as the West had, Bonnie and Clyde and the other bank robbers of the Depression, the bootleggers who sold rot gut(what their product did in real life), and others too numerous to mention. There are many theories why people look up to rule breakers and law flouters, but its a long and established tradition. And these were real people, not fictional ones.
It's even older than that. Remember Robin hood?