It turns out that the wild west was not so wild.
How wild was the “Wild West”, in fact?
Why are liberals so hell bent on disarming potential hate crime victims from these thugs?
It turns out your source is not a valid or reliable one. When a researcher has a bias to support, his research is not reliable.
In the old days, most people lived a frontier life on ranches or farms far away from each other. They didn't communicate l like we do today and were pretty much on their own week in a week out.
In that period of time, everyone having a gun is fine, but it was not anything like our modern world. As well, they didn't have anything even remotely like the firepower we have today. Most people would only have a hunting rifle. The number of men who had pistols would be very limited.
If today people were only allowed single action hunting rifles or pistols, we wouldn't have the problem we have now, but we would still have a different situation because of the fact of the hugely higher population and the vast communication network. Nowadays, for example, when some nutcase sees a mass shooting on the news, he goes out and does the same.
Actually, no.
Pistols were cheap, and reliable. The Colt Navy which was the pistol used by both sides was just one of the readily available weapons. Smith and Wesson also made pistols, as did Remington. By the end of the Civil War, cartridge weapons were replacing muzzle loading cap and ball rifles. The Winchester lever action was just the most well known.
By 1880, single shot weapons were becoming far more rare. There were some but they were mostly heavy rifles, like the Sharps, used for long range shooting. They were not muzzle loaders.
By this same time, there were literally millions of six shot revolvers in existence. Cowboys all had a preferred weapon of course, but so did most everyone else. The other thing to consider was that many of those who settled the West were Veterans of the Civil War. After a man had faced the line at Shiloh, it would not be easy to intimidate him. He knew how to shoot, and fight, well.
Think about this. Would you do something if you weren’t getting paid? If you are, it is called a hobby. But we all need money to afford things like shelter, and food.
The gun makers of the era were spending time, and money developing new more refined, more reliable weapons. Now, if nobody was buying them, why did they spend that money, time, and effort to research and develop the weapons?
By the turn of the Twentieth Century we had seen the Machine Gun already developed and deployed during hostilities. We have seen the breech loading cannon perfected, and larger cannons were being developed constantly. Weapons reliability and quality was improving by leaps and bounds. The Mauser designed bolt action rifle was copied by pretty much every nation, and was standard issue for everyone by the time the First World War came around.
The beginnings of the semi-automatic pistols and rifles had come and these weapons were becoming common. Mauser, Walther, the famed Colt .45 ACP, Browning 9MM.
Many weapons designs were made and really obsolete before they could hit the shelves. Progress moved very quickly. Think of this. Within four decades the Winchester went from revolutionary to obsolete and old fashioned. Pump Shotguns were developed during the same period.
Why would anyone spend the money developing these things, if they were not expecting a big payday when it was perfected?
The same reason that the Model T is not the standard car you see on the road today. The same reason that the Wright Flyer is not the airplane you will see flying overhead today. Those were Genesis, the beginning, not the end.
I don't care to hear that "Oh, it's inhumane" crap. 
