What similar conditions? The unemployment during the Great Depression was over 20%.  It's not even close to that now.  The stock markets ae up and down(as always).  Many businesses are still in the black and many that aren't are only slightly down.Again I ask, what simiilar conditions?

Similar antics won't last as long today; police will shoot first and ask questions later. IMHO B&C were sociopaths that hadn't really been seen before. At first the Robin Hood ideal was in play but when you shoot folks that could have been otherwise put off it makes one less the bandit-hero and more the pond-scum type.Depression evoked images of the big bad banks left over from earlier times... can't rob oil companies or political parties; more's the pity. I see no Bonnie and Clyde types on the horizon... just dirty little pukes that will remain nameless vermin until written off.

… and another thing.Given the culture of America at the time of the events conpared to the time the movie was made we can see a very di(s)turbing trend appear that continues to haunt our society.In the 30'(s) America was still strong on gun rights... everyone knew what the 2nd Amendment meant. Even with the gangsters in the cities and B&C types running around the gun laws that cme into effect were not aimed at the average citizen. By the 1960's (and after JFK's assassination) all that changes and movies like this portray the guns as the problem... not the sociopaths that use them... after all guns were used to stop the terror B&C were spreading. The culture today make(s) the inanimate object the problem and not the user of the object.Thanks Hollyweird.[wow...lots of trouble with s's that day, eh?]