A DANGEROUS PRACTICE.
The frequency with which people in some of the larger cities of the Dominion have been held up at the point of the revolver of late is one that might well form the subject of serious comment. In many cases the offenders are youths of vicious tendencies whose aim, apparently, is to imitate the so-called "bad men" of the West as illustrated in sensational literature of the D'eadwood Dick type. The question, however, is not so ranch on.? g| $Ue quality of the liki-atui'e Atfiiffiilated by thes ■ youths j It Is rather a question oi whether they should he permitted to become the possessors of fir sarins at all: In a country such as this it ■cannot be urged that firearms are necessary to the protection of life; as a matter of fact, instead of being a protection they become ) a serious menace because the irresponsible who carries thorn is imbued with the dangerous principle that he is a law unto himself,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 30 May 1913, Page 4
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165A DANGEROUS PRACTICE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 30 May 1913, Page 4
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