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Show SELF-MADE REFORMERS. Crime is a matter In which a great number of people, without experience or knowledge of conditions, become self-made "authorities." -The nation is alive with these amateur ama-teur crime reformers. Their voices are raised in our legislative halls and in auditoriums, and their views find their way into print. That, of course, is their right. But it would be well to give their projects the closest scrutiny scru-tiny before making them the law of the land. Advocating anti-revolver laws is their favorite cure-all for crime. They reason that as some persons arc injured or killed with small arms, such articles should be legally abol-ishd. abol-ishd. On the same ground, automobiles, automo-biles, which in the hands of reckless or individual persons, kill more individuals indi-viduals than war, should be abolished. So with airplanes, axes, knives, hammers, ham-mers, etc. The point that the reformers re-formers miss is that the gun in itself Ls a perfectly innocent implement for lawful uses. To make its ownership unlawful is tantamount to saying that anything that may be used in thf mmmissira of crime should be illegal. ' - - ' Actual experience has proved anti-gun anti-gun laws a failure. New York City-is City-is a sufficient example. An unprotected unpro-tected home or store is an invitation to the underworld. |