FREEREPUBLIC.COM 1 Hour Ago Armed Citizens and the Modern Frontier Skip to comments. Armed Citizens and the Modern Frontier Gun Watch ^ | 25 May, 2013 | Dean Weingarten Posted on 05/24/2013 4:24:40 PM PDT by marktwain During much of the United States' existence, a significant portion of the population lived near to the uncivilized frontier. The frontier was a place where the laws of civilization did not reach, where Judeo/Christian morals were not in the ascendancy, a place of danger, where travelers must always be on their guard, where savage tribes held sway, a land often as not immersed in a low level of war, either between the tribes or between a tribe and western civilization, and where a man depended on his wits and weapons, and was not able to depend upon the force of law. (snip) The rise of these multitudes, primarily concentrated in the inner city cores, have brought about an era of American history with a new, urban, frontier. Once again, most of ...