THE PISTOL IN AMERICA.
An American clergyman, alluding to the death of the late President, thus refers to the pistol and bowie-knife nuisance :—This is not a land of peace ; it is a nation of armed men. The farmer has a revolver in his bedroom ; theinerest boy on the slightest provocation pulls out his pistol. Two hundred years have proved that in civil life at least, the Quaker is right. No Quaker ever shoots, and no Quaker ever is shot. There should be a general disarmament, and we should guard the sale of pistols as we guard the sale of poisons. It is brutality that comes from the possession of weapons that do harm.
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Patea Mail, 15 February 1882, Page 3
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114THE PISTOL IN AMERICA. Patea Mail, 15 February 1882, Page 3
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