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Show The United States A lYeedoin JjOviiij; Nation The effect on American life of firearms has always 'been a healthy one. The love of sport and hunting, ! inherited from English forefathers, ; has made for both physical and men-' tal alterlness. j It is this phase of 'the American sharecler, the love of sport and the right to protection, that has made independent, and liberty-loving citizens citi-zens unfriendfly to laws prohibiting Ihe sale and use of small arms. Guns have been used fo,r unlawful purposes purpos-es and so have ami omobiles, ships and 'he mails; yet no one would think of i bo'.ish ing them. The fact that criminals crim-inals fi:o well supplied with revolvers knives, 'poison, hammers, axes, rope, vire, dynamite and similar articles, is certainly no reason for forbidding heir use to law-abiding citizens for 'n.wful and necessary purposes. Quid; r and more severe punishment for lie wrongdoer is a better cure. Crime waves have proven our many "concealed weapon" statutes useless. And yet still more Hfrin.gc.nl ones are be'ng proposed, apparently in the In-ierost In-ierost o',' the criminal, by politicians who seem to have no knowledge of the situation. A freedom-loving people will oppose them and see that ihe honest, citizen's constiful ions.l right to own guns Is not impaired. |