TIL Clyde Barrow didn't rob out of greed -- he wanted revenge against the Texan prison system for abuses and sexual assaults he suffered after serving time for a string of non-violent thefts.

Violence begets violence. Frontier justice begets frontier murder. Texas just begets more Texas.

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And one of the Texas Rangers who took the Barrow Gang down went on to become a notorious strikebreaker. What a total piece of shit.

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