I guess I fit as a "gun-totin' friend" even though I almost always have no more than a 1-inch pocket knife blade on me. But it's on a Swiss Army thing and I could trim your mustache or something with the scissors.
Yes, I enjoy shooting targets. For a period in my life those targets were people, but I haven't even shot at anyone in, oh, just years and years and years. Even out here in the Wild West there ain't no more than six or eight shoot-outs per day and never has been more'n that.
The question is simple: Why would I need to carry a firearm if another weapon (a nicely sharpened pencil, for instance) would do, not make a lot of noise, and be much more inconspicuous?
Ted Nugent has his opinions and I have mine. If he's obsessed with the Old West he knows little about it, which is the case with most folks, there are books available which will enlighten him.
Hollywood and the media have given cowboys and other settlers a very bad name.