Show CRIME DOCTORS NEEDED crime according to foremost scientific 0 opinion Pin lon Is a disease and must be treated as aa such in the past crime legislation has failed to take this into account we have bavo had bad an abundance of laws but no determined effort to correct evils emotional mental and social that have hare caused crime to increase zealous reformers have bare made strong efforts to pasti a national law forbidding the sale eale and possession of revolvers and pistols while such efforts have tailed many state laws are la in force that make it virtually imps abble for honest citizens to own a gun for protection or amusement the futility of such laws to la evident the pistol may bo be an ins instrument trumen it 0 of crimes cri meas may knives shotguns or tho the I 1 malls bu but it is never a cause calls a 0 to o legislate against it la equivalent to t t legislating agal against ast the automobile ab because cause reckless driving causes deaths |