six-gun

The owner was one of those quick-draw McGraw guys who entered six-gun fast draw competitions and was a winner.

Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.

Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen.

The lyrics aren't subtle: > Robbin' people with a six-gun > I fought the law and the, the law won Fighting the law outside the system by disobeying it is a totally different concept from fighting the law within the system by suing over it.

Charitable reading: in the "some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen" senses, with a heavier emphasis on the latter, though the former is more readily punished.

It is quite possible to have slung a six-gun and driven cattle in the "old west" and still lived to witness the beginnings of the space race.

I will add an observation by the esteemed Woodrow Wilson Guthrie: "Some will rob you with a six-gun, / And some with a fountain pen." I would guess that the latter cause far more harm each year than the former, and in NYC especially.

Charitable reading: in the "some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen" senses, with a heavier emphasis on the latter, though the former is more readily punished.

It is quite possible to have slung a six-gun and driven cattle in the "old west" and still lived to witness the beginnings of the space race.

I will add an observation by the esteemed Woodrow Wilson Guthrie: "Some will rob you with a six-gun, / And some with a fountain pen." I would guess that the latter cause far more harm each year than the former, and in NYC especially.