Show A Moral for Reformers Those who advocate anti ver and pistol laws law because of the preval prevalence nce of crime are on shakey halcey ground The sawed off shotgun and sub-machine sub gun are the modern modern modern mod mod- I ern weapons whose operation in involves in- in in-I in voh es little skill and whose destructive destructive des des- power is a thousand times that of any any small arm It is not improbable that crime flourishes today partly because so few homes and offices are protected protect protect- ed by arms A good many cities and states have rigid gun anti-gun ordinances ordInances ordinances or or- and in ill others the requirements requirements re re- re- re for m owning a weapon are so involved that the average citizen does not go through the tha necessary red tape This is not an argument in favor of all aU of ofus ofus ofus us going about the streets armed but but it certainly is evidence of ofa a condition which gives gi potential law breakers an advant advantage ge by making it it difficult for the law- law abiding citizen to protect his home or place of business We have done many things in inthe inthe inthe the name of crime prevention We Ve have passed restricting liberty laws thus giving us liS more laws to break We Ve have penalized the good citizen in the hope rope that this ordinance or that would miraculously miraculously miraculously cut down crimes As a result result result re re- re- re sult the United States Is the greatest law breaking civilized country on earth carth There is iJ a sound moral here if the reformers reformers reformers reform ers care to look for It |