There's a reason why the American wild-west has had such great appeal. Not just in the states, but even abroad. I'm almost certain that it taps deep into ancient blood memory.

It also harkens to ancestral morality. I.e. it was a time when if our folk were attacked, we struck back hard and didn't turn the other cheek.

"A wayfarer should not walk unarmed,
But have his weapons to hand:
He knows not when he may need a spear,
Or what menace meet on the road."
Odin - Havamal - 38

That ancestral wisdom was needed in the wild-west, in antiquity and even today. Divine, timeless and practical wisdom indeed