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Show which, while theoretically a protection protec-tion for society, in effect to help the ! criminal to evade justice. The growth of crime and the efficiency of underworld under-world organization, with its wealth and widespread contacts, has caused a condition that can only be corrected correct-ed by quicker and surer arrest and punishment, rather than by prohibitory prohibit-ory legislation that becomes a deadly boomerang. LEGISLATIVE NONSENSE. "It is sheer nonsense to suppose that legislation prohibition the interstate inter-state shipment of firearms will do anything toward keeping weapons out of the hands of gunmen," - says the Waltham, Mass., News-Tribune. "Neither will state laws aimed at "making it impossible for citizens to possess weapons legally . " If anti-gun legislation ieeps on it will be impossible for the honest citizen to secure a weapon of defense while the crooks will still be able to replenish their arsenals at will. For bootlegging of weapons is much easier than bootlegging liquor :for it naturally would be done in smaller quantities more easily" h5nd; led. " 'J-?' " Legislators who are aiming aim-ing for gunmen ought to aim very straight. The anti-pistol laws illustratte a fallacy in modern criminal legislation. legisla-tion. We have a multiplicity of laws |