The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-06-06

and other dealers in many harmless
commodities. But you ask: What (
has all this to do with carrying con-
cealed weapons, or the responsibility
of society in the matter? 1t has this
to do with it. If society has the power
to enact law making the carrying of
concealed weapons crime, and ii this
law fails, partly from the fact that
weapons are concealed, and partly be-
cause the law is not enforced, then
society has also the power to enact
further laws that will not fail-will
not be imperative if proper oversight
is given to their enforcement.
AS society has the power to license
the various businesses l have named,
So society has the power to license the
sale and carrying of weapons, firearms
especially, and to so guard the sales
that it would be almost impossible to
obtain them without it's permission or
license. Let me now show how this
can be done. First-enact law pro-
hibiting the carrying of firearms with
out license, (for which a small fee
NAV be charged) and the doing so,
rendering the offender liable to heavy
fine or Imprisonment, or both. This
license to be shown at any time when
required by recognized authority.
Second-enact a law requiring all
dealers in firearms of every discrip.
ton, dangerous weapons, powder, shot,
and cartridges, whether wholesale or
retail, to take out license for the sale
thereof. The wholesale dealer not to
: sell to any retailer in the state, county,
city or town, as the case may be, who
has not license to sell such articles,
and to keep a register of all sales
r made open to inspection by the proper
authorities. Now this done, and the
retail dealer being duly licensed, re-
quire of him under heavy penalties
that he should sell no fire. arms under
any pretence whatever, or powder, shot
or cartridges, to any person not hav
s. ing a license to use or carry the same
% and that such license must be shown
e to the dealer before any of the articles
10 named are sold, and further, that hi
u shall give to the proper authority al
g exact account of the quantities o.
81 such articles he has in stock; and a.
70 he receives the same, also as to whom
III sold, for which purpose he will be re
LII quired to keep register of all sale
al made open to inspection by the author
ie tiles as required. He may also be re
nc quired to give prompt information t
H. the authorities of any application TO
~ weapons or cartridges by any perso
VI not having a license to carry the same
~ Until society does enact some sue
IL law as the above or one equally strl1
gent, they must be held responsible fo
ch the crimes brought about by the
VI NEGLECT. l will pause here to ask soc
y, ETY. the question, whether or not,
llo would be we'll for them, before SEM
III ing commissioner to inquire abol
lie Armenian outrages in Turkey, to a
It! point a special commission to inqui
ch ;,,+o ,d dov;co romodioS for the ore
llJO. ana uCNlSS ItIllClllCO IOl IllO SAC
'h' evils existing here in our very mlds
loC We NAV rest assured that IT such
Vi carnival of murder existed in any OF
III of the countries of continental EuroT
eu a general European commission wou
'oo be speedily inquiring into its cause
'oii We think lightly of the five, ten
VI twenty murders recorded in the pape
'ou day by day, but when we sum up t
VI aggregate and find that more tn
l"ii 10000 human beings have thus be
'i0 cut off in less than nine years,
llie' simply stand appalled, and horrifi'
eg Society can by some such law as tt
Jul [ have outlined, remedy this evil
eiy least in part. The question is, "
10 society do it? II
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