| Being a coward has no bearing on their ability to murder people.
Of course criminals are risk takers, the one thing that stops most persons from becoming criminals is that they are not going to take the risk of getting caught or being killed, whereas criminals just see it as another challenge to be overcome, they are convinced that others, (police and honest citizens are fools) and that they have the perfect plan. The fact that a great number of them are unsuccessful and get caught, and go to jail is no deterrent, they are in fact the "Classic Risk taker" just the same as he gambling addict who knows the odds are against him yet he must always have just one more gamble.
The wild west was not called that because it was quiet and peaceful. The real outlaws were in all reality just drunken thugs, the movie script writers have a lot to answer for.
I doubt that we'll ever see a movie or read the history of the peaceful west. |