Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1915 — Would Make It Hard On Those Who Carry Weapons. [ARTICLE]

Would Make It Hard On Those Who Carry Weapons.

. -Representative Sare would like to break up the practice of carrying weapons, concealed or in the open. He has proposed a measure that would usake it a penitentiary offense to carry a revolver, razor, knife or other deadly weapons. He states that he has observed that rigid enforcement of the present law again st carrying concealed weapons has reduced crime and that If the punishment is increased crime will further diminish. Probably he is right. We have never been able to see why the sale of pistols has not been restricted, but any boy who has been influenced by reading a dime novel dan go to a -second hand store ki a city and buy a gun for a dollar or two. The next thing is to get it working and rriany off the ‘'stick up” men Are only boys who have crammed their craniums with Diamond Dick stuff. The average person has about -a® much use with a revolver -as a ghat has with a lawnmower.