The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-02
Gun Toting'
A Bad Habit
rr NORA COLE sKINER.

net theory which you think n
,anscea for all the worlds Ills. now
"a the time for you to display your
wares. for the world will listen. Since
,0l4 ~, have been up in the air."
and are still willing to try anything
Eut speak quickly, for we are fast
gettire back to earth, and will soon
p7eei our old friends hard facts'
f,ce 40 face. Then the day of the
Iorr.ha.r"d theorists and the par
ior-ln,clocuals will be ended.
We will soon have a disarmament
congress in Washington and we sin
cercly hope that a great step VIII he
takcn towards the earthly millen-
mum
Buf considering d sarament, 1t
vou'd boz well II we should go astep
farther. and disarm the individual
citizen fro our midst. In fact. we
should begin at home and disarm
Individually before inviting the ma
,ons OF the world to put up their
swords
Recently there appeared IN the
' Chicago papers an advertisement by
man Offering s. 900 to anyone who
yolvers should be manufa ctured ana
sold o. tho general public. It was
an odd advertisement, and the
funny part about IL the gentleman
sM has HIS thousand dollars
No one attempted to give a rea-
, son-for there wa none to give.
L Is cuntcnded that the good citi-
zen should not give up his gun
until the crook and criminal ele-
ment IS forced to d.sarm. that said
good citizen would be at the mercy
Of the thug In such an event.
So far so good but as a matter
of TACT the gun isn't uFed to kill
the thug, nine times ont OF ten II is
pulled and eo-1a raspCctnhlc citizen
is shot 10 death to pay Off some old
prudgv or In the hrat Of a quarrel.
Leave the criminal TO the po ice, he
will he picked mn nv ard by. and
Et pistols are not sold TO the general
publlc the time viii soon come when
the criminals are al disarmed and
no more guns to be had.
No ono should carry a revolver
but the officers OF the law. No re-
yolvers should be made except for
the government; they should be made
by the government, or by some pri-
vate corporation for the government. {
No private citizen has real use for
a revolver IL could be confiscatcd
without any of his liberties being
curtailei
The revolver is an invention
which, II properly used. is a bless
ing, But no one will deny that fl is (
Improperly used to an oyerwhelm- /
ing degree.
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weapon was taken years ago when /
Il became unlawful for anybody to :
carry - pistol on his person. unless .
he was an officer OF the law. Every /
state in the Union now has such a 1
law But IL Ia not enough. It Is too :
easily oyaded, and the penalty is too
light
Prohibition grew slowly County
after county voted local option. and |
then the state went dry Finally !
the movement gained such mo-
mentum that the eighteenth amend
ment was adoptcd-and liquor for
ever hanished from our shores.
Not that a bottle OF beer. or n
glass Of wine, in Itself was bad, but
there Woro too many individuals that
couldn't stop there, and drank TO ex-
cess, wrecking their lives and
bringing shame and disgrace to their
homes. So the flowing bowl was
taken from us, and the penalty for
being caught with half pint In
your nip pocket is perhaps two years
al Leavenworth.
But II siN-shooter is removed
rom your person tho maximum ,
penalty In most states is $c5, and as
"a general thing this is RENTED ana
'he pistol returned.
VI Cours" YOU get a lecture
thrown In free gratis for nothing"
but that is all.
recently "A man was arrested in
'hicago. His friends resented II
onu pistols were displayed on all
sues After several shots were
..Iea and number wounded, the
man was carried off to jail. and |
liners taken to hospitals, 4 paper
Pmmentng on the Incident. says
t1ero is nothing unusual In this. but
al us significance lies in the fact |
mat It is usual; and then followed a
sermon on gun-toting.
New York and Chicago and other
Clues north and east cannot point :
me finger Of scorn at Oklahoma and |,
IeAas In this respect. There are
more sun-men in the big cities than
ahSWhere eise. And by "gun-men"
we dont mean ordinary criminals, 7
@ @u1t we do mean ordinary citizens ,
VINO carry guns.
Ath"uEh grown, We are Ike chill :
wren u.G II we don't know how TO play
,s'h Nun our toys without getting hurt. :
,,ney WIN be taken from us. Th,
ta 5ne mas come when the pistol must 4,
De given UP, +,