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Show CREATING LAWLESSNESS. Human nature one of whose fundamental fun-damental characteristics is the urge toward freedom cannot be changed by legislation. Age-old customs cannot be erased overnight by law. Here are truths that should be called to the attention of every lawmaker. law-maker. An important Teason for the prevalence of crime in America is that we have harassed the good citizen citi-zen with a tremendous volume' of hasty, unenforceable and ill-considered legislation. It will usually be found that law-abiding nations are those where the laws are designed to protect the rights of citizens, rather ra-ther than to restrict them on the dubious theory that crime will thus be lessened. We cannot curb lawlessness by nerely passing more restrictive laws .0 break. |