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For to save life one great solver / Would be to prohibit the revolver, / Weapon of coward and of bully, / Who slaughter friends in their folly.
Let now no man or any boy, / With loaded arms ever toy, / Showing off their manly vigor, / Pointing to friend and pulling trigger.
And sending bullet through their brain, / And then exclaim in mournful strain, / When friends with grief they are goaded, / I did not know that it was loaded.
Fire arms oft' times do bring woes, / And they kill more friends than foes, / Hunting now o'er fertile fields, / 'Tis seldom that it profit yields.