Garfield County News | 1928-10-12 | Page 11 | Pampering the Law Breaker

PAMPERING THE LAW BREAKER maudlin sentiment that makes martyrs of criminals and turns thoin thein loose to prey upon society results in fit encouraging crime moro more than that it would almost seem as aa it if crime wore a safe profession it if only tho criminal is sufficiently dramatic nd and vicious to enlist the sympathies of misled ro formers fon ners A california criminal presents a case in point ile ho was waa first sent to tho the penitentiary as a desperate evildoer ile ho proved this by participating in a prison break in ili 1914 in ili which lie ho was wounded and tour four were killed the guards in prison found him an unusually vicious character cha to handlo lian lio yet lie was turned loose to be given giren 11 mother another chance what might have been expected happened hu used hla his chance to go on oil a murder test teat that resulted in ili the murder offous of four and the wounding of a fifth on oil being apprehended lie said that he was merely squaring matters for what had been done to him and it to Is an actual fact that some reformers are now claiming that lie ho Is insane and should not be held responsible for his acts recently senator john J blaine ot wisconsin remarked while tho the senate district committee was considering a now new pistol law that professional salvationists wore were tho the cause of too many laws creating crime after crime heaping sin upon sin we will not have crime reform until our laws are simplified and enforced and criminals are given their due as ravagers of soc society ety passing more antl anti pistol laws restricting law abiding citizens and infringing on ther constitutional rights to own small arms will not reduce crime or restrain real criminals who can as conveniently use knives hatchets axes clubs poison etc such laws make more laws to break