For many, the gunfighter evokes images of an errant knight on horseback who rides into town and rescues the helpless citizens from bad guys bent on crime and corruption. To quote Jack Shaffer's classic book, Shane, “he rode into our town from out of the great and glowing west and when he was finished he rode back to whence he had come."
The bad guy represents the sinister personification of evil who reacts to any situation with violence. When it comes to villains, my concept of the “class
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