Show THE MAYS GUN of all the laws ot this country the one prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons la most flagrantly disregarded and with most disastrous results the bad man carries because it is his a gun in his stock in trade without it he would cease to be any kind of a terror some who are not bad carry them it Is habit or a matter of bravado others citizens otten carry them but purely for self protection against the bad man who Is ready to shoot at the first opportunity all aie violators of the law of the land it the law against the carrying ot concealed weapons were rigidly enforced against every person and if the penalty were changed to a penitentiary offense there would be very few murders and other outrages committed the unarmed man seldom commits a criminal act our law officers and courts are going about the business of stamping out crime in the wrong manner criminals have no fear of the law against gun carrying A small fine no terrors tor they pay it and shove the gun back in their pocket again but serving a year or two in the pen would not be so easy it would occupy too much time and wouldn t be altogether comfortable and it the second or third ff meant five or ten years in limbo we imagine the practice would soon cease entirely at any rate it be on the increase in the centers ot population and in many country districts as it is today the fellow who eanls fied to fight with fists should be forced to let fighting alone they say a woman cant drive a nail but most ot them can drive their husbands to do it tor them |