RoscoeBryant
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Yes, the novels of Karly May are very very inaccurate from a historical point of view (he never visited most places he wrote about), but beloved in Austria an Germany (maybe not as much today as they were 40 years ago) because of his funny and at the same time exciting style of writing.post #208 Old Shatterhand (??) that threw me for a loop. "... a fictional character in Western novels by German writer Karl May (1842–1912) ..." He was as popular a fictional character in Germany as American author Howard Pyle's "Robin Hood" was in the U.S. (I'll bet European impressions of the Old West are about as accurate as my impression of Medieval England.)
This thread is doing a service by giving European perspectives on European gun laws and gun rights.
Old Shatterhand is his best-known character and famous for beeing such a good christian, that he never kills even his worst enemy unless he absolutely has to. He always shoots his enemies in their legs or hands ( with open sights even at hundreds of yards ), and therefore someone claiming "you should have shot him in the leg instead of the chest" wants them to act like Old Shatterhand did.