Butch Cassidy and the Sudance Kid epitomize that hard-nosed, tenacious "stick-to-itness" togetherness -- come what may -- yet unswerving loyalty to rugged individualism that characterized the first whites landing on these shores in the 15th and 16th centuries. Butch Cassidy and Sundance represent a culture when gunmen "shot it out" with other men who also had guns.
They didn't walk into schools and start killing unarmed, helpless men, women, and children; they didn't walk into a theater and start killing unarmed, helpless men, women, and children watching a movie; they didn't shoot into crowds of unarmed, helpless men, women, and children and kill them in "ride-by" shootings.
They didn't ride down a street and see a lone man jogging and shoot him in the back, killing him. They didn't ride into a Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. and start firing bullets at unarmed, helpless men and women.
Butch Cassidy and Sundance didn't hide behind: "Somebody hurt my feelings, so I'm gonna get even with them. I'm gonna start killing people." Butch Cassidy and Sundance were real men.
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