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Show When Crime Was A Hazardous Thing The Deseret News of Salt Lae City takes a strong stand against anti-revolver laws a favorite nostrum nos-trum of our crime reformers. When a revolver was part of the equipment equip-ment of the pony express rider and the cowboy, says the News, "when the shotgun was caned on the drivel's dri-vel's seat of the stage coach, ana when the merchant at the crossroads cross-roads served goods over a counter that covered sudden death under a tiigger, police protection was desired, de-sired, but not absolutely necessary. 1 Jobbery .... was hazardous in the extreme. Men were not held up and slugged for a little small change. . ." "In other words, the anti-gun laws obeyed by society, disregarded disregard-ed by the underworld are the criminal's crim-inal's ally. They make it possible for him to carry on his "work" with a maximum of success and a minimum mini-mum of danger. They prevent, by penalty of the law, the good citizen citi-zen from protecting his home, his business, his family and himself. We live in an age when whole cities are terrorized by bombs and machine guns, when it is said a person can be hired to commit a murder for as little as seven dollars, dol-lars, when, apparently, the police and the courts are impotent. And to cure all this we suggest that the law-abiding citizen be prohibited prohib-ited from owning a revolver or pistol. |