Against Pistol Toting by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 27, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 38.

Against Pistol Toting

By Editor

The "Farmers' Union News" of Georgia thinks that life would be a great deal safer in the Southern States if the Georgia farmers would take a hand in demanding the enforcement of the law in reference to "pistol toting." It declares: "There is absolutely no excuse for carrying a pistol in this enlightened age and in countries where people claim to be civilized. That the practise is really an evidence of coarseness; the lower type of citizens think of destroying life; the higher type of preserving it; and that the man who depends on brute force admits his mental weakness. A man of a fine mind will not stoop to the level of the brute." And there is lots of good sense in this counsel.