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Show ARGUMENT DOES NOT HOLD WATER.. A critic of our constitutional right in the United States to own firearms, recently presented an exhaustive article ar-ticle in which he attempted to prove the necessity of laws to prohibit private pri-vate ownership of firearms by showing show-ing that larger proportion of people are murdered with guns in this country coun-try than in other nations. By the same line of reasoning, he could probably show that more people per thousand are killed by automobiles automo-biles in the United States, that more people pep thousand are burned to death in fires and that more people per thousand meet with accident and death in constructing high buildings, at street crossings and in sports than in any other nation, all because our people are more active and generally more energetic, aggressive, and care- less than are the people of the rest of the world. The critic of private ownership of firearms does not go on to show that in every time of national emergency, the United States" has raised troops capable of using firearms, more rapidly rapid-ly than other nations. The argument that millions of law-abiding private citizens should be denied the ownership owner-ship of firearms for either sport or protection on the theory that this would remedy the crime situation, the murder situation or the suicide situation, sit-uation, is visionary, far-fetched and impractical. Prohibitory legislation which penalizes pena-lizes the masses in the hope of correcting cor-recting the few, has always in times past created conditions worse than those it sought to remedy, i . |