Show RESTRICT THE SALE OF ARMS New York has Its Tracy in the rlcfcperodo who shot ahd murdered fourteen four-teen persons before he could be cap tured There really will have to be something done to keep arms away rpm the criminal classes With guns perfected as they are rapldllrlng comparatively com-paratively noiseless und smokeless outlaws have too great an advantage over the officers of the law A nervy desperate man who Is supplied with a modern gun plenty of ammunition and has the advantage of concealment and actlnc on the defense c can make a resistance re-sistance altogether disproportionate to his Importance and can inflict such terrible punishment on llic representatives representa-tives of tho law that tho public cannot can-not stand the cost It will be much better to allow the sale of arms only lo persons of good character and under restrictions such an will prevent the growing tendency to the slaughter of officers Thin can well be done on the name principle that the laws regulating regulat-ing the sale oC poison are enacted It Is too much to nsk tl1L1 thatj we allow a whole platoon of good men lo be sacrificed sacri-ficed In the arrest of a reckless or crazed man and the growing numbers of such cases together with the proncnec of certain sentimental fools to glorify the heroism of the outlaw of which we saw so much In the Tracy case calls for prompt and vigorous action by Legislatures The Constitutional Constitu-tional provision that the right of tho people to bear arum shall not be In irlngcd lo put In conjunction with the inllltia clause and would have no restrictive force as applied to such legislation It In 1 the pi line duty of poclcty to protect itself and the easy Kale of arms to all buyers must In the Interest of society Itself be StoPped |