Call for Gun Control, Also Control of Brass Knuckles and Bowie Knives, 1912

From The Mebane Leader, published Thursday, June 6, 1912

It’s a misdemeanor for a man to sell or trade to any one under 21 years of age a pistol, brass knucks or a bowie knife, but there is no infringement of the law to sell these deadly weapons to any one over this age, irregardless of their character or the purpose they wish them for. North Carolina laws have been made principally by her lawyers. If a pistol toter shoots a man down and murders him, who will profit by a trial of the case but the lawyers?