What Wyatt Earp Knew

Public order must be enforced with rigor and fearlessness.

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(L)Antique steam locomotive in the American West, (R) Wyatt Earp.

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For the first time in more than 100 years, train robberies are a big thing again, drawing loose comparisons to the Wild West era.

Of course, this is overwrought. Jesse James isn’t boarding trains with his gang to make off with whatever loot they can grab, before inevitably disappearing only to — maybe after writing a self-valorizing letter to the newspaper — strike again.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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