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Nunya Bisness's avatar

It's a show lol. And in that picture of billy "axe-murdering natives," did billy axe murder them with the pistol in his hand or was it somehow understood that he picked up an axe at a later moment and began murdering the natives. In the picture he has a gun in his hand not an axe. He's pistol whipping not axe murdering. And your rant about the show promoting violence.... Really? What show doesnt?

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William Bonney's avatar

First...You need to read some actual history. All of the personal qualities you listed as the way BTK was portrayed on screen, is indeed how he really was. Read Billy the kid: A short and violent life. He is described as just that.

Secondly, the killings the Kid was accredited with were at a time of war. What happened during the Lincoln County situation was indeed war. His people were being killed by The Murphey / Dolan faction, starting the war. The Kid was a soldier defending his friends against an group of attackers. Not taking the actions of the other side of a war into account when condemning the actions of someone involved just shows your uneducated mentality.

And lending any credit to Pat Garret for his description of the Kid is absurd. Pat Garret was a criminal in his own right. His book was an autobiography written to boost his ego as he was taking heat for shooting an unarmed Billy. Garret was a coward and a murderer himself, but yes, lets take his account of what Billy was actually like.

Lastly, describing people who know history and admire Billy the Kid for what he was, a warrior, as incels and potential mass shooters, shows just how moronic, uneducated, and pathetic you are. Maybe you should study history before you go spewing your modernistic, liberal BS.

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