People are [censored] too, just bumping into someone [censored] them off enough for them to pull their gun and shoot at you leaving you no choice but to return fire, then a witness sees this and calls it murder which means you have to kill him to stop him reporting you.

I'm trying to be a nice chap

Sure you aren't playing GTA ?

LOL I know I've had exactly that happen out in the open, I've then had 1 person witness me killing the guy so try to report me so I've killed him as well (so no witnesses left) and yet I still get a bounty when a random NPC finds the body down the line.
I actually thought I had missed a witness the first few times but then i saw a stream where a guy does the above and then goes quite far away from the guys he's killed and perch on the side of a cliff and look through his binoculars at the bodys and as soon as a NPC found the body BOOM Bounty added.

At this rate, I'm just going to buy up all the ammo and just shoot out the whole town leaving it a ghost town and be done with it.

I went down to the city, jumped off my horse and grabbed somebody by the throat, luckily I managed to let them go before I killed them but it meant I was wanted for assault and the trapped wouldn't deal with me :/

Thought I was missing out on this game as not being on PC yet but don't feel so bad now. In fairness, it was super hyped which is hard to live up to. Hope it improves as you play through.

I'm 49% through now. It's ok, not a great game just ok

Damn, sorry to hear that - thought the rockstar name was almost a guarantee

Normally I take my time but I'm trying to rush this so that I can play AC Odyssey
If I'd have known I'd have bought that first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujGtwsc5GYQ

That is so... crafty...